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Synthesis of pH Dependent Pyrazole, Imidazole, and Isoindolone Dipyrrinone Fluorophores using a Claisen-Schmidt Condensation Approach
Published on: June 10, 2021
Formation and decay of the triplet excited state of pyridine
Kazuyuki Enomoto1, Jay A LaVerne, Shu Seki
1Radiation Laboratory and Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
Abstract:
A pulse radiolysis study of the formation and decay of the triplet excited state of liquid pyridine has been performed using quenching techniques. The pyridine triplet excited state is observed with an absorption band at lambda = 310 nm and has a first-order decay with a lifetime of 72 ns. Stern-Volmer plots of the quenching of the pyridine triplet excited state with anthracene, naphthalene, and biphenyl give its yield to be 1.3 molecules/100 eV. This value is very similar to the previously determined yield of 1.25 molecules/100 eV for dipyridyl, the predominant condensed-phase product in the gamma-radiolysis of liquid pyridine. The rate coefficient for pyridine triplet excited-state scavenging by oxygen is estimated to be 6.6 x 10(9) M(-1) s(-1). Oxygen may also scavenge the electron precursor to the pyridine triplet excited state, whereas nitrous oxide is observed to have little effect. A pyridyl radical-pyridine (dimer) complex produced in the pulse radiolysis of neat liquid pyridine is detected at lambda = 390 nm and is consistent with iodine scavenging effects. Formation of the pyridiniumyl radical cation-pyridine charge-transfer complex is proposed to be insignificant in liquid pyridine.
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