SOLVENT EFFECTS ON EMISSION YIELD AND LIFETIME FOR COUMARIN LASER-DYES - REQUIREMENTS FOR A ROTATORY DECAY MECHANISM
SOLVENT EFFECTS ON EMISSION YIELD AND LIFETIME FOR COUMARIN LASER-DYES - REQUIREMENTS FOR A ROTATORY DECAY MECHANISM
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DOI:
10.1021/j100248a024
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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通讯作者:
BERGMARK, WR
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作者:
JONES, G;JACKSON, WR;BERGMARK, WR
Photophysical parameters have been determined for coumarin laser dyes in a variety of organic solvents and in water and mixed media. The response of fluorescence emission yield and lifetime to changes in solvent polarity was a sensitive function of coumarin substitution pattern. Most important were substituent influences which resulted in larger excited-state dipole moments (for the fluorescent state), in restrictions of rotatory motion for the amine group at the 7-position, and the delocalization of excitation energy away from the coumarin moiety. For dyes displaying sharp reductions in emission yield and lifetime with increased solvent polarity, protic mediaand particularly water were most effective ininhibiting fluorescence although deuterium isotope effects (H20/D20) on photophysical parameters were minimal. The temperature dependence of emission yield and lifetime was measured for two solvent-sensitive dyes in acetonitrile and in a highly viscous solvent, glycerol. The quenching of coumarin fluorescence by oxygen for dyes with lifetimes> 2 ns was also observed. The dominant photophysical features for coumarin dyes are discussed in terms of emission from an intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) excited state and an important nonradiative decay path involvingrotation of the amine functionality (7-position) leadingto a twisted intramolecular CT state (TICT). This previously proposed nonradiative decay path is a subtle functionof coumarin structure, solvent polarity and viscosity, and temperature and is most sensitive to substituent patterns which localize excitation at the 7-amino group and which stabilize charge in the twisted zwitterionic (TICT) intermediate. The role of excited-state bond orders involving the rotating group in determining the importance of interconversions of the type ICT-»