Issue 2, 2002

Solvent effects on the photophysical properties of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene

Abstract

The quantum yields of fluorescence, ΦF and of triplet state production, ΦT of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene and the fluorescence lifetimes have been measured in fourteen different solvents. It has been shown that ΦF + ΦT is less than one in all the solvents except bromobenzene. Delayed fluorescence of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene arising following triplet–triplet annihilation is observed in all solvents. It consists of excimer as well as monomer emission, the relative intensities of which were shown to be different from the ratio for prompt fluorescence and to vary with solvent polarity. The rate constants for fluorescence quenching by the three heavy-atom-containing quenchers, iodopropane, iodobenzene and dimethyliodobenzene, kIPS, kIBS and kDMIBS, respectively have been measured and in all solvents it was found that kIPS<kIBS<kDMIBS. Reasons for this are discussed in terms of the charge transfer interactions of the first excited singlet state of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene with the quenchers and with the different solvents.

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
01 Jun 2001
Accepted
22 Aug 2001
First published
11 Oct 2001

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2002,4, 161-167

Solvent effects on the photophysical properties of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene

A. F. Olea, D. R. Worrall, F. Wilkinson, S. L. Williams and A. A. Abdel-Shafi, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2002, 4, 161 DOI: 10.1039/B104806F

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