Abstract: | It was established that in aqueous solutions of anionic porphyrins the processes of triplet-triplet (T-T) annihilation are
absent (K2<2.5·105 M−1 sec−1), while a delayed annihilation fluorescence can be detected for these porphyrins in methanol (K2≊3.5·107 M−1 sec−1) and for their lipophilic analogs in organic solutions (K
2≊2.5·109 M−1 sec−1), and the kinetics of absorption of the latter porphyrins in triplet states is dependent on the intensity of the exciting
radiation. The extremely small constant of T-T annihilation of anionic porphyrins can be due to the formation of a relatively
dense solvate shell consisting of water molecules around the charged groups of the porphyrin molecules, which increases steric
barriers and thus prevents an exchange-resonance transfer of energy between triplet excited molecules in aqueous solutions.
It is also shown that porphyrin molecules can electrostatically repel one another when in their structure there are charged
groups.
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Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70 F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus;
e-mail: llum@imaph.bas-net.by. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 791–795, November–December,
1999. |