Optically detected magnetic resonance study of the lowest excited triplet state of aromatic thioketones: Xanthione |
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Authors: | August H. Maki Peter Svejda J.Robert Huber |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA;Fachbereich Chemie, Universität Konstanz, D7750 Konstanz, West Germany |
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Abstract: | The aromatic thioketone xanthione has been investigated by means of the optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) technique in a n-hexane matrix at ≈ 1.1 K. It was established that the short-lived red emission, which is characteristic for many thione molecules, is phosphorescence. At high temperatures (77 K) this phosphorescence originates mainly (>80%) from the T1z (n, π*) sublevel (kz(r) >kx(r), ky(r). At low temperature (1.1 K) the intersystem crossing following S2 (π, π*) ← S0 excitation is a highly spin-sublevel selective process which populates predominantly the T1x and T1y, levels. Hence, the slow spin—lattice relaxation phosphorescence at low temperature originates from these sublevels. A value of 0.0611 cm?1 was obtained for the zero-field parameter |E|/hc. A lower limit of 0.66 cm?1 has been found for the zero-field parameter |D|/hc. This value is considerably larger than those observed for ketones, and it is shown that spin—orbit coupling contributes strongly to the zero-field splitting. |
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