ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIA OF THE EXCITED SINGLET AND TRIPLET STATES AND THE SEMI-REDUCED FORM OF ACRIDINE ORANGE

Abstract— The acid-base equilibria of the excited singlet and triplet states of acridine orange (AO) were studied by flash-photolysis and fluorometric methods. The dye is a stronger base in the first excited singlet state (pK_s= 13.3) than in the triplet and ground states (pK_r= 10.3: pK_c, = 10.2); acridine orange follows the trend observed with some other heterocyclic compounds, viz. pK_s > pK_r= pK,_c. At room temperature, an anomalous fluorescence occurs from the dye in basic media: the assignment of this emission is discussed.
The semi-reduced dye was studied as a function of pH. In a large pH range (3–14), only the protolytic equilibrium between the cationic (AOH₂⁺) and the neutral (AOH) radicals was observed; the pK value corresponding to this equilibrium was found to be in the range of pH 5–6.     

EFFECT OF THE BROMINE ATOM UPON THE DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS OF BROMOPYRIDINES,BROMOQUINOLINES AND 4-BROMOISOQUINOLINE IN THEIR LOWEST EXCITED SINGLET AND TRIPLET STATES*

Abstract— The lowest excited singlet-state dissociation constants (pK^S_a) of bromosubstituted pyridines, quinolines, and isoquinolines were determined from the pH-dependent shifts in their electronic absorption spectra. The lowest excited triplet-state dissociation constants (pK^T_a) of bromosubstituted quinolines and 4-bromoisoquinoline were obtained from the shifts of the 0–0 phosphorescence bands measured in rigid aqueous solution at 77 K. The pK^S_a values indicate that the basicity of these brominated nitrogen heterocycles is increased in the lowest excited singlet state by 2 to 10 orders of magnitude as compared with the ground state. The pK^T_a values are found to be significantly different from the corresponding ground-state pK_a values, indicating that the basicity of bromoquinolines is increased in the lowest excited triplet state by 1.7 to 3.0 pK units. The enhancement of the excited singlet-and triplet-state basicity of brominated nitrogen heterocycle derivatives as compared with the unsuhstituted parent compounds is attributed to the increased electron-donor conjugative interactions of the bromine atom pπ orbitals with π orbitals in the lowest excited singlet and triplet state.     

EXCITED STATES OF SIX-MEMBERED N-HETEROCYCLES. FLUORESCENCE, PHOSPHORESCENCE AND ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIA OF FIVE MONO- AND DIAZA-PHENANTHRENES IN THE LOWEST EXCITED (τ,τ) STATES

Abstract— Acid-base equilibria of five azaphenanthrenes (1-and 4-aza; 1,10-, 1,7-, and 4,7-diaza) in the two lowest excited (τ,τ) states have been determined by Förster's cycle. Pure electronic levels of the free bases and their conjugate acids have been located from the absorption, fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra. In diazaphenanthrenes the increase of the first pK_a and the decrease of the second pK_a under excitation has been observed, and an explanation is offered. In many cases the reactivity of the molecule excited to the lowest triplet state differs considerably from that in the ground state. The Pariser-Pam-Pople (PPP) calculations of the free bases have been performed. From the theoretical results, the changes of the net charge on nitrogen atoms under excitation and the magnitude of the S-T splitting in the L_a and L_b states have been discussed and compared with experiment.     

EXCITATION WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE OF PROTOTROPIC DISSOCIATION AND TAUTOMERISM OF SALICYLAMIDE IN THE LOWEST EXCITED SINGLET STATE

Abstract—The fluorescence spectra of salicylamide in cyclohexane, ethanol and at different pH in water were studied. The short and long wavelength fluorescences observed in the organic solvents originate from emissions of a weakly or non-intramolecularly hydrogen bonded conformer and from phototautomerization of a strongly intramolecularly hydrogen bonded conformer, respectively. Evidence for at least 2 conformers in the ground state exists in the excitation wavelength dependence of the ratio of short wavelength to long wavelength emission. In water, prototropic dissociation of the phenolic group of salicylamide in the lowest excited singlet state also shows an excitation wavelength dependence, indicating that the weakly or non-intramolecularly hydrogen bonded conformer in water is predominately responsible for photodissociation.     

新型有机类杂芪染料的合成及其光物理性质研究

利用改进的碱缩合或酸催化反应,合成了8种类杂芪染料:反式-(2-N-甲基吡咯基)-(4-N-甲基吡啶基)杂芪碘(反式-MPPSI)、反式-(2-吡咯基)-(4-N-甲基吡啶基)杂芪碘(反式-PPSI)、反式-(2-呋喃基)-(4-N-甲基吡啶基)杂芪碘(反式-FPSI)、反式-(2-噻吩基)-(4-N-甲基吡啶基)杂芪碘(反式-TPSI)、反式-(4-N-甲基吡啶基)杂芪碘(反式-PSI)、反式-(4-甲基)-4(4-N-甲基吡啶基)杂芪碘(反式-MPSI)、反式-(4-胺基)-(4-N-甲基吡啶基)杂芪碘(反式-APSI)和反式-(4-N,N-二甲胺基)-(4-N-甲基吡啶基)杂芪碘(反式-DAPSI)其中PPSI、FPSI和TPSI为首次报道的新型染料.研究了这8种染料的基本光物理性质.应用线性Hammett方程,得到了类杂芪染料的电荷转移性质、荧光最大发射波数及Stock's位移和Hammett常数σ或五员杂环的富电子性ρ(C)_D间的线性相关性,由于类杂芪染料分子的最低跃迁能(υ_a)可与σ或ρ(C)_D线性相关,所以类杂芪染料的电转移态性质、荧光最大发射波数及Stock's位移也可与υ_a线性相关,从而得到了拓展的线性Hammett方程.     

THE LOWEST EXCITED TRIPLET STATES OF CODEINE AND MORPHINE AND OF THEIR MOLECULAR SUBUNITS VERATROLE AND GUAIACOL

Abstract— The lowest excited triplet T₁ states of the two alkaloids, morphine and codeine, have been investigated by ODMR and emission spectroscopy. The electronic character of their T₁ states could be determined by comparing the T₁ properties with those of the constituent parts guaiacol and veratrole. The T₁ properties, e.g. phosphorescence spectra, zero-field splitting parameters and triplet sublevel selective decay rates are very similar for the constituent parts and the alkaloids. Thus, in analogy to veratrole and guaiacol, the T₁ state of codeine and morphine is assigned to a ππ* state mainly localized on the benzene ring and the attached alkoxy and hydroxy groups. There is no evidence for a contribution from the other subunits, trialkylamine and unsaturated alcohol, to the T₁ state of codeine and morphine.     

PHOTOTAUTOMERISM OF HARMALINE AND HARMALOL IN THE EXCITED SINGLET STATE

Unusual behaviour of harmaline and harmalol by excited state proton transfer has been studied and the acidity constants for the different prototropic equilibria in the ground and excited singlet states have been reported.     

THE INFLUENCE OF THE NITRO GROUP ON THE DISSOCIATIONS OF SOME AROMATIC ACIDS AND BASES IN THEIR LOWEST EXCITED TRIPLET STATES*

Abstract— –Estimation of lowest excited triplet and singlet state dissociation constants of some nitro-aromatic acids and bases, from shifts in their phosphorescence and absorption spectra, respectively, indicate that intramolecular charge transfer to the nitro group is much more important in the lowest excited singlet state than in the ground or lowest excited triplet states. As a result, the effect of a nitro group on the acidity of the lowest excited singlet state of an acid or base is more exaggerated than that on the ground or lowest excited triplet state of the same compound. Furthermore, the basicity of the nitro group is greatly enhanced in the lowest excited singlet state. On this basis the increased rate of photoreduction of nitrobenzene in acidic solutions is found to be thermodynamically unfeasible in the lowest excited triplet state. Although the reaction is thermodynamically feasible in the lowest excited singlet state, the short lifetime of that state may make the reaction kinetically unfeasible. Rate-Hammett acidity profiles are therefore inadequate to alone establish the mechanism of photoreduction of nitrobenzene.     

EXCITED STATES OF SIX-MEMBERED N-HETEROCYCLES. FLUORESCENCE, PHOSPHORESCENCE AND ACID—BASE EQUILIBRIA OF ELECTRONICALLY EXCITED PHENAZINE

Abstract— An account of a systematic study of the acid-base equilibria of phenazine in the two lowest excited (π,π) states is presented. Pure electronic levels of the free base and of both its protonated forms have been located by spectroscopic methods. Fluorescence, phosphorescence and corresponding absorption spectra have been measured. The O-O energies of the free base, of the singly-protonated species and of the doubly protonated form in the lowest triplet state (³L_α(π, π)) are: 15, 475 cm^-1, 14, 175 cm^-1 and about 9300cm^-1, respectively. This last value has been estimated from the experimentally determined S-T splitting in the other two forms. Corresponding energies of the lowest singlet state (^IL_α(π,π)) are: 23,500 cm^-1, 21,250cm^-1 and 17,300 cm^-1. The fluorescence of the free base has been found in polar as well as in non-polar solvents and has been checked by the fluorescence excitation spectrum. Fluorescence quantum yields for the free base have been measured: 8.6 times 10^-4 and 3.0 × 10^-5 in ethanol and hexane solutions, respectively. Emission in ethanol has been ascribed to (π,π), that in hexane —to (π, π). fluorescence. The changes of pK_α's under excitation, calculated from the Forster's cycle, are equal: δpK_a¹=+2.8±0.3; δpK_a¹¹?+10±1.5 in the lowest (π, π) triplet state and δpK_a¹=+4.8±0.5; δpK_a¹¹=+8.4 ± 0.5 in the lowest (π,π) singlet state. The δpK_a¹¹ in the triplet state is at least as high as that in the ¹L_a(π, π) state. P P P calculations of the electronic levels and of the molecular diagrams have been performed. The energies obtained exceed experimental values by not more than 0.5 eV. An increase of the net charge on nitrogen δp under excitation has been found to be +50, +70 and +19 per cent in the ¹L_a, ¹L_b and ³L_a states, respectively. A good correlation has been found between δpK_a¹ and δp in both excited states, which have been studied experimentally.     

PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTY OF SANGUINARINE IN THE EXCITED SINGLET STATE

The photophysical property of the alkanolamine form of sanguinarine has been studied in aqueous and organic medium under various environmental conditions from the measurement of absorption, fluorescence and NMR spectroscopy. Alkanolamine fluorescence shows an excitation time dependent fluorescence quenching and the rate of quenching increases significantly with increasing pH and concentration of the species, while it decreases with increasing temperature. This phenomenon is explained by excited state intramolecular proton transfer from a 6-OH group to the lone pair of nitrogen through the formation of zwitterion.     

RESONANCE RAMAN and ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF ISOMERIC RETINALS IN THEIR LOWEST EXCITED TRIPLET STATES

Abstract— The triplet-triplet absorption spectra of 9-cis-, 13-cis- and all-fraw-retinal as well as the time-resolved resonance Raman spectra of the lowest electronically excited triplet states of 9-cis-, 11-cis, 13-ciy and all-trans-retinal in aromatic solvents at room temperature have been obtained under conditions ensuring the isomeric purity of the starting materials. The triplet states were produced by triplet energy transfer from a sensitizer in pulse-radiolysis experiments. The overall results suggest that the isomeric retinals form either different relaxed triplet species or different mixtures of relaxed triplet species. The possible implications about the size of the energy barriers separating the various triplet species are discussed. The resonance Raman spectra obtained by using either anthracene (E_T= 177.7 kJ mol^-1) or naphthalene (E_T= 254.8 kJ mol^-1) as sensitizers were virtually identical for the corresponding triplet states from each of the isomers 11-cis-, 13-a's- and all-tams-retinal, suggesting that the relaxed triplet species or the mixture of relaxed triplet species formed from each isomer is independent of the energy of the sensitizer.     

INDICATION OF FAST TRIPLET FORMATION IN BIMOLECULAR QUENCHING OF EXCITED SINGLET STATES STUDIED BY CONVENTIONAL FLASH PHOTOLYSIS

The bimolecular quenching of the first excited singlet state of oxonine by allylthiourea leads to the formation of the triplet state of the dye. This has been proved by comparison with the triplet-triplet absorption spectrum of oxonine obtained by triplet-triplet energy transfer. The conventional flash experiments suggest that the dye triplet state is produced directly rather than by radical recombination.     

螺吡喃激发态的反应活性

研究了6′-硝基-1,3,3-三甲基吲(口乃木)苯骈螺吡喃,Ⅰ,和6′-硝基-1-苯基-3,3-二甲基吲(口乃木)苯骈螺吡喃,Ⅱ,的光化学,Ⅰ的直接光解和敏化光解均得到份菁结构的光解产物Ⅲ,量子产率分别是0.42和0.32.Ⅱ直接光解时生成相应的有色光解产物Ⅳ,量子产率是0.40,氮杂蒽酮为敏化剂的敏化光解量子产率是0.58,无疑地,单线态和三线态均参予螺吡喃的发色反应,用这些结果和折算关系式得到,在Ⅰ的直接光解中,Ⅲ主要来自单线态,而在Ⅱ的直接光解中,Ⅳ主要来自三线态.从Ⅰ或Ⅱ的敏化联乙酰燐光实验中求得三线态参数.它们是:φ_ISC^Ⅰ＝0.11,φ_ISC^Ⅱ＝0.48;³K_dt^Ⅰ＝3×10⁴秒^-1,³K_dt^Ⅱ＝9×10⁴秒^-1,类似地,³K_r^Ⅰ＝0.12×10⁴秒^-1,³K_r^Ⅱ＝2.52×10⁴秒^-1,这样,³φ_r^Ⅰ值较小是由于³φ_ISC^Ⅰ值较小,而三线态寿命随结构变动不大.最后,取苯乙烯为模型,用它的电子能量与乙烯双键扭曲角度关系图推断出,来自单线态的双离子具有螺环构型,而来自三线态者具有平面状构型.     

QUENCHING OF OXONINE EXCITED STATES BY EDTA VIA ELECTRON TRANSFER AND DEACTIVATION PROCESSES. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EXCITED SINGLET AND TRIPLET STATE REACTIVITY

The quenching of excited singlet oxonine by EDTA in aqueous solution leads mainly to deactivation of the dye to the ground state and, to a lesser extent, to electron abstraction. The rate constants for these processes have been measured and compared to those for the same reactions involving the oxonine triplet state. The rate constant of electron abstraction is about ten times greater via the singlet state than via the triplet state. However, the rate constant of deactivation to the ground state is 10³-10⁴ times greater for the excited singlet state than for the triplet state, so that the efficiency of electron transfer is much smaller for the singlet state.     

DETECTION OF PORPHYRIN EXCITED STATES IN THE INTACT BOVINE LENS

Previous steady state and time resolved spectroscopic studies on porphyrins have shown that the triplet lifetimes of those sensitizers that bind to lens proteins are lengthened by several orders of magnitude. Presented here is an extension of this experiment to measure these transients in an intact bovine lens. As demonstrated by steady state fluorescence spectroscopy and flash photolysis, mesotetra (p-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (TPPS) binds to lens proteins. In air-saturated aqueous solution, TPPS has a triplet lifetime of 2 microseconds. In an intact bovine lens the triplet state decayed via biexponential kinetics with lifetimes of 0.16 and 1.6 microseconds. In addition to a lengthening of the lifetime there was a red shift in the triplet transient spectra of 10-20 nm of the porphyrin in the intact lenses.     

SOLVENT AND TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON THE EXCITED SINGLET STATE ABSORPTION OF DIPHENYLBUTADIENE

Nanosecond excited state absorption spectra of all-trans-1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene (DPB) and a rigid s-cis DPB analog, 1,4-diphenyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene, were obtained in several hydrocarbon solvents at room temperature and low temperatures. Analysis of the excited state absorption spectra of these two molecules suggests the presence of excited state s-cis rotamers in DPB at room temperature.     

THE TRIPLET EXCITED STATES OF BILIVERDIN AND BILIVERDIN DIMETHYL ESTER

Abstract— The triplet states of biliverdin and biliverdin dimethyl ester have been generated using pulse radiolysis excitation. Biliverdin triplet was formed by energy transfer from biphenyl triplet in acetone, absorbed throughout the wavelength range studied (380–1000 nm) and had a half-life of 11.7μs under the cpnditions chosen. Biliverdin dimethyl ester triplet was formed by energy transfer from biphenyl triplet in benzene, likewise absorbed throughout the wavelength range studied (360–1000 nm) and had a half-life of 6.7μs under the conditions used. Both biliverdin and biliverdin dimethyl ester efficiently quench anthracene, naphthacene, but not μ-carotene, triplet states. On the other hand. neither μ-carotene nor oxygen were found to quench the triplet states of biliverdin or biliverdin dimethyl ester. Estimates or limits for the rate constants of all these quenching reactions were obtained. These reactivities suggest that the triplet levels of both biliverdin and biliverdin dimethyl ester lie around 90 kJ mol^-1. The triplet energy transfer rate from bilirubin to biliverdin dimethyl ester in benzene was measured to be 1.9 × 10⁹ M^-1 s^-1. The singlet-triplet intersystem crossing efficiencies of both molecules were very low, limits of 0.004 and 0.001 being found for biliverdin and biliverdin dimethyl ester, respectively, using 347 nm laser excitation.