Triplet, energy levels, determination excitation

A number of experimental techniques are available for the determination of triplet energy levels. Those most commonly employed are phosphorescence spectroscopy, phosphorescence excitation spectroscopy, singlet to triplet... 

A further technique exists for the determination of triplet energy levels. This technique, called electron impact spectroscopy, involves the use of inelastic scattering of low-energy electrons by collision with molecules. The inelastic collisions of the electrons with the molecules result in transfer of the electron energy to the molecule and the consequent excitation of the latter. Unlike electronic excitation by photons, excitation by electron impact is subject to no spin selection rule. Thus transitions that are spin and/or orbitally forbidden for photon excitation are totally allowed for electron impact excitation. 

The triplet-state energy level of oxytetracycline, the excitation maximum (412 nm), lifetimes of Eu-OxTc (58 p.s) and Eu-OxTc-Cit (158 p.s), were determined. A 25-fold luminescence enhancement at 615 nm occurs upon addition of citrate within a short 5-min incubation time at neutral pH. It s accompanied by a threefold increase of the luminescence decay time. The optimal conditions for determination of OxTc are equal concentrations of Eu(III) and citrate (C = T lO mol-E ), pH 7.2. Eor determination of citrate, the optimal conditions concentrations of Eu(HI) and OxTc are 1 0,5 (Cg = MO Huol-E-i, = 5-10-HuohE-i) at pH 7.2. 

In contrast to the case of ZnCh-Ceo, no transient formation of Ceo" was detected at 1000 nm for any other dyad in Scheme 4b [65]. In each case, only the triplet-triplet absorption due to the chlorin or porphyrin moiety was observed due to the higher energy of the radical ion pair as compared to the triplet excited state as is expected from the redox potentials. Thus, the energy level of the radical ion pair in reference to the triplet energy of a component is an important factor in determining the lifetime of the radical ion pair. 

Conjugated dienes have very high excited singlet levels, while the excitation energies of the lowest triplet states are less than 60 kcal.276 Intersystem crossing of diene singlets is quite inefficient, so that the chemistry of diene triplets has been determined by photosensitization. 

Photoexcitation of MP-Ceo in Solution. The photoexcitation of MP Cgo in toluene or ODCB results in weak fluorescence at 1.74 eV and a long-lived triplet excited state. The fluorescence quantum yield in toluene is known to be 6 x 10-4 [107]. Singlet excited state lifetimes of 1.45 ns [103] and 1.28 ns [107] have been reported for toluene solutions. The quantum yield for intersystem crossing from MP G eofA i) to MP-Ceo(Ti) is near unity [107] and the lifetime of this triplet state is about 200 (is [103]. The triplet state PIA spectrum of MP Ceo exhibits a Tn <— Ti absorption at 1.78 eV with a characteristic shoulder at 1.54 eV [103]. The energy level of the MP -Coo(7j) triplet state has been determined from phosphorescence to be at 1.50 eV above the ground state level [107]. 

Triplet excited states of four derivatives of ubiquinone-6 (256), in which various ring substituents are progressively altered, have been studied by laser flash photolysis (265 nm) and pulse radiolysis (9—12MeV electrons). The triplet absorption spectra, extinction coefficients, lifetimes, energy levels, and quantum efficiencies of formation were determined.117... 

By monitoring excitation spectra with a time-resolved detection of the emission, briefly called time-resolved excitation spectroscopy , it is possible, to identify specific relaxation paths. Although, these occur on a ps time scale, only measurements with a ps time resolution are required. It is shown that the relaxation from an excited vibrational state of an individual triplet sublevel takes place by a fast process of intra-system relaxation (on the order of 1 ps) within the same potential surface to its zero-point vibrational level. Only subsequently, a relatively slow crossing to a different sublevel is possible. This latter process is determined by the slow spin-lattice relaxation. A crossing at the energy of an excited vibrational/phonon level from this potential hypersurface to the one of a different substate does not occur (Fig. 24, Ref. [60]). This method of time-resolved excitation spectroscopy, applied for the first time to transition metal complexes, can also be utilized to resolve spectrally overlapping excited state vibrational satellites and to assign these to their triplet substates. 

The efficiency in the transfer of energy from the triplet states of various compounds to ground singlet states of isoprene, 1,3-pentadiene, and 2,3-dimethylbutadiene have been studied. The diene molecules become excited to their lowest triplet states and undergo chemical reactions which may be dimerization or stereoisomerization. As in the case of butadiene, the energy level of the sensitizer in its lowest triplet state determines the magnitude of the energy that is transferred to the diene and the course of its subsequent reactions. Typically, in the case of... 

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