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Solvent Effect on Cocaine and Methyl Benzoate Phosphorescence |
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| Authors: | V. I. Stenberg S. P. Singh N. K. Narain |
| Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry , University of North Dakota , Grand Forks, N. D., 58202, USA |
| Abstract: | In polar, nonhydrogen-bonding solvents, cocaine's phosphorescence differs from that of its model compound, methyl benzoate, in what can be attributed to an amine-benzoate charge transfer interaction and both compounds exhibit long wavelength bands not present in nonpolar media. |
| Keywords: | Fluorescence phosphorescence nonhydrogen-bonding solvents cocaine methyl benzoate charge transfer. |