Christina Kjær, Steen Brøndsted Nielsen and Mark H. Stockett
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 24440-24444
DOI:
10.1039/C7CP04689H,
Communication
While the emission spectrum of fluorescein monoanions isolated in vacuo displays a broad and featureless band, that of resorufin, also belonging to the xanthene family, has a sharp band maximum, clear vibronic structure, and experiences a small Stokes shift. Excited-state proton transfer in fluorescein can account for the differences.