Issue 5, 2000

External heavy-atom effect on fluorescence kinetics

Abstract

Fluorescence quenching in fluid solution by the external heavy-atom effect usually follows simple Stern?Volmer kinetics, and the quenching effect is gauged by the magnitude of the bimolecular quenching rate constant. However, it is the increased unimolecular S1→Tn intersystem crossing rate constant of the perturbed fluorophore in the perturber?fluorophore complex that can be directly compared with that of the unperturbed fluorophore. From a simple model for external heavy atom quenching in fluid solution, the decay law is predicted to be singly exponential for all quencher concentrations, and a new expression for the unimolecular S1→Tn intersystem crossing rate constant of the perturbed fluorophore is obtained. The same problem, but in rigid solution, is also discussed for the first time. The model now predicts a nonexponential fluorescence decay law, from which the unimolecular S1→Tn intersystem crossing rate constant of the perturbed fluorophore can be directly determined.

Article information

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PhysChemComm, 2000,3, 18-23

External heavy-atom effect on fluorescence kinetics

M. N. Berberan Santos, PhysChemComm, 2000, 3, 18 DOI: 10.1039/B002307H

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