UV-VIS absorption studies

Recently, 2-hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) was demonstrated to be a very suitable matrix for UV/Vis absorption study of photoyellowing of milled-wood lignin in the solid state [10] where clean kinetics of discolouration were established after different chemical treatments of the lignin in solution. This indicates the importance in the discolouration process of phenolic structures without carbonyl groups and conjugated double bonds. The present communication describes a similar photochemical study on quinones and hydroquinones incorporated in HPC films under comparative concentrations ( 6.5xl0"5 mol/g HPC). For comparison, we also use UV/Vis reflectance spectroscopy to examine the behaviour of these compounds adsorbed on filter paper after light-exposure. 

UV-Vis absorption studies revealed that the helical oligothiophenes 44 and 45 had identical absorption onset but significantly red shifted to the onset for the planar trithiophene 42. This provided an estimate for the optical band gap,... 

UV-VIS absorption studies showed the culture media did not have any absorption in the region of the AuNPs absorption (520 nm), and there was a strong absorption peak at 521 nm for the well-dispersed AuNPs in the media, which also confirmed no resonance shift due to agglomeration of AuNPs occurred in culture media (Figure 5.12a). 

Time-resolved spectroscopic techniques are important and effective tools for mechanistic photochemical studies. The most widely used of these tools, time-resolved UV-VIS absorption spectroscopy, has been applied to a variety of problems since its introduction by Norrish and Porter almost 60 years ago. Although a great deal of information about the reactivity of organic photochemical intermediates (e.g., excited states, radicals, carbenes, and nitrenes) in solution at ambient temperatures has been amassed with this technique, only limited structural information can be extracted from... 

Indeed, time-resolved resonance Raman (TR ) spectroscopy has been successfully employed to study the structure and dynamics of many short-lived molecular species and is the topic of a separate chapter by D. L. Phillips in this book. Like TR spectroscopy, TRIR spectroscopy gives one the ability to monitor directly both the structure and dynamics of the reactants, intermediates, and products of photochemical reactions. The time-resolved Raman and IR experiments, along with their transient UV-VIS absorption predecessor, are of course all complementary, and a combination of these techniques can give a very detailed picture of a photochemical reaction. 

Maldotti (96) studied the kinetics of the formation of the pyrazine-bridged Fe(II) porphyrin shish-kebab polymer by means of flash kinetic experiments. Upon irradiation of a deaerated alkaline water/ethanol solution of Fe(III) protoporphyrin IX and pyrazine with a short intense flash of light, the 2 1 Fe(II) porphyrin (pyrazine)2 complex is formed, but it immediately polymerizes with second-order kinetics. This can be monitored in the UV-Vis absorption spectrum, with the disappearance of a band at 550 nm together with the emergence of a new band due to the polymer at 800 nm. The process is accelerated by the addition of LiCl, which augments hydrophobic interactions, and is diminished by the presence of a surfactant. A shish-kebab polymer is also formed upon photoreduction of Fe(III) porphyrins in presence of piperazine or 4,4 -bipyridine ligands (97). 

Electronic (UV-Vis) spectroscopy has not been utilized in a routine manner. This is perhaps due to the fact that the nature of heterocycles is rather difficult to correlate correctly, with the chromophoric absorption. The UV-Vis absorption spectra of 23b (Table 2) have been studied in detail with R = H, C6H13, CgH17, C20H21, C4H9, and 4-( I, 11. With the exception of 23 (R = 4-C6Hi3C6H4) and which contains conjugated A -phenyl ring, the... 

The interaction between 4-(4-hydroxybut-2-ynyloxy)-3-(phenylsulfonyl)-l,2,5-oxadiazole-2-oxide 16 and bovine serum albumin (BSA) was studied by spectroscopic methods including fluorescence and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy. The results indicate that molecules 16 bind with BSA forming 1 1 complex. Thermodynamic parameters, such as AH, AG, and A.Y, were calculated. The results indicate that the binding reaction is mainly entropy driven and hydrophobic forces play a major role in this reaction <2006CHJ1050>. 

The symmetry of the LB films was determined by polarized ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) absorption spectroscopy, optical rotation, and second-harmonic generation. All studies showed that the constructed LB films are anisotropic in the plane of the film and that the symmetry of the film is C2 with the twofold rotation axis perpendicular to the film plane. For example, when the SH intensity is plotted as a function of the azimuthal rotation angle (rotation around an axis perpendicular to the plane of the film), the twofold symmetry becomes evident (Figure 9.23). Isotropic films generate an SH signal independent of the azimuthal rotation angle. On the other hand, the LB... 

A suggestion for the existence of at least three populations of adsorbed Ru(II) comes from the time evolution of the transient UV-vis absorption spectra. These spectra show that the recovery of the initial Ru(II) spectra occurs with two parallel (fast and slow) second-order components. The rate constants for these two components show remarkably little dependence on the nature of the coordinating ligands. Both of these components are attributed to recombination of the adsorbed Ru(III) with the injected electrons. Thus there is a small luminescent population of Ru(II) that does not engage in electron injection, a non-luminescent population that injects and recombines rapidly, and a third population that injects rapidly and recombines slowly. A detailed picture of the nature of the ligand/semiconductor interaction and how it affects the behavior of these systems awaits further study. 

In LB films not only the interaction of chromophores but also their orientation can be controlled at the molecular level. Molecular orientation of chromophores has been determined by several methods including polarized UV/vis or IR absorption, second harmonic generation (SHG), Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), or resonance Raman scattering. We have measured the incident angle and polarization angle dependencies of polarized UV/vis absorption to study the molecular orientation of alloxazine, porphyrin, and carbazolyl chromophores, or 4,4 -bipyridinium radical cations in LB films[3-12]. Usually in-plane components of transition dipoles of chromophores are... 

SnC>2 nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method using ethanol, acetone, tetrahydrofuran (THF) and ether as solvents. X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) have been used to study the crystallographic and morphological properties of synthesized SnC>2 nanoparticles, while their optical properties have been studied by UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy. UV-Vis absorption spectra shows a weak quantum confinement in all the synthesized SnCL samples. The photo-catalytic activity of as-synthesized SnC>2 nanoparticles under UV irradiation has been evaluated using Methylene Blue (MB) dye as a test contaminant in water. The results showed that solvents played a key role to control the morphology and photo-catalytic activity of SnCE nanoparticles. 

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