Effect of preferential solvation and bimolecular quenching reactions on 3OCE in acetonitrile and 1,4-dioxane binary mixtures by optical absorption and fluorescence studies
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Total Internal Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy TIRAS for the Detection of Solvated Electrons at a Plasma-liquid Interface
Published on: January 24, 2018
V T Muttannavar1, Raveendra Melavanki2, Kalpana Sharma2
1Department of Physics, JSS Science RSH PU College, Vidyagiri Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
Abstract:
Fluorescence quenching and preferential solvation of a coumarin derivative, namely 3-[2-oxo-2-(2-oxo-2H-chromen-3-yl)-ethylidene]-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one (3OCE), with aniline used as a quencher in solvent mixtures of acetonitrile (AN) and 1,4-dioxane (DX) was carried out at steady state. Suppan's theory of dielectric enrichment was used to understand the nonideality and dielectric enrichment in AN-DX solvent mixtures. The effect of viscosity and dielectric constant variation at room temperature were analyzed. Quenching was characterized using Stern-Volmer plots with an upward curvature. It was found that 3OCE underwent combined static and dynamic quenching that was evident from the quenching rate parameters.
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