Dissociation of photochromic spiroanthrooxazine dimers in the excited state

The influence of temperature and concentration on the spectral polarization properties of the luminescence and absorption of molecules of the original form of photochromic spiroanthrooxazine (SAO) in petroleum ether and polyethylene was investigated. It was shown that the long-wave part of the absorption spectra of the molecules is formed by at least two -*-type electronic transitions, the oscillators of which are mutually orthogonal. It is suggested that the SAO molecules form dimers in nonpolar media through dipole-dipole interaction, and at high concentrations they also form higher associates. Dimers stable in the ground state dissociate when excited to the second electronic transition with a rate constant of 10¹²–10¹³ s^–1.N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117977 Moscow. Department of the Institute of Solid-State Physics and Semiconductors, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 211177 Vitebsk. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 99–106, January, 1992.     

Filled latex composites with high dielectric constant, based on dispersed ferroelectrics

The possibility of controlling the physicochemical properties of suspensions and the electrical properties of filled latex composites containing dispersed ferroelectrics was examined. The use of ferroelectrics as fillers allows preparation of polymeric composites with high dielectric constant ? and low dielectric loss, used, e.g., for the development of dielectric functional layers of electroluminescence light sources.     

Photochromism of 1′,3′,3′-trimethyl-6-piperidinospiro [indoline-2′,3-3H-naphth [2,1-b][1,4]-oxazine]

The effect of the piperidine substituent on the spectral and photochromic properties of spiro(indoline-naphthoxazines) (SINO) in different solvents is studied. The introduction of this substituent into the naphthoxazine fragment of SINO results in the appearance of fluorescence of the initial formA of SINO at low temperatures. This fluorescence gradually disappears as the temperature increases. The temperature and concentration dependences of the spectral parameters of photoinduced formB of SINO make it possible to assume thatB molecules aggregate in non-polar solvents. In all solvents studied, form B, unlike the photoinduced form of the non-substituted spiro naphthoxazine, is stabilized as a bipolar ion with a positive charge on the nitrogen atom of the piperidine substituent. The increase in the rate of thermal decolorization as the medium polarity increases is explained.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 684–688, April, 1995.The authors are grateful to the Belarus' Foundation for Basic Research for financial support of this work.     

Features of the photochromic behavior of spiroanthrooxazine in solutions

The photochromic properties of 1,3,3-trimethylspiro[indolin-2,3-3H-anthraceno[2,1-b][1,4]-oxazine] (SAO) in solutions of different polarity [n-BuOH and petroleum ether (PETh)] were studied. It was established that the quantum yield of the photocoloration AB and the energy of activation of the thermal decolorization E_a in the PETh depend on the temperature; this is not the case in n-BuOH. The luminescence properties of SAO were investigated. It was found that the spectrum of the excitation of the luminescence in PETh depends on the temperature. These features, as well as the slower thermal decolorization of the colored form of SAO in PETh by comparison with the solutions in n-BuOH, are explained by the presence of dimers of the SAO molecules in nonpolar media in the temperature range investigated (77–300 K), whereas the SAO molecules already occur in the monomeric state at 150 K in the polar n-BuOH.N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117977 Moscow. Branch of the Institute of the Physics of Solids and Semiconductors, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 211177 Vitebsk. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 93–98, January, 1992.