Activation energy barrier for intersystem crossing in platinum phthalocyanine

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzer-Hsiang Huang ◽  
Klaus E. Rieckhoff ◽  
Eva-Maria Voigt

Phosphorescence quantum yields and lifetimes of platinum phthalocyanine in α-chloronaphthalene solution are reported for temperatures from 1.3 K to 300 K. Activation energies of intersystem crossing are deduced and found to be Ea = 17 ± 3 cm−1 for crossing from the first excited singlet state to the lowest lying triplet state and Eap = 8 ± 1 cm−1 for crossing from the lowest lying triplet state to the singlet ground state.


1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (14) ◽  
pp. 2353-2360 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Strachan ◽  
D. E. Thornton

Ketene has been photolyzed at 3660 and 3130 Å both alone and in the presence of the inert gases C4F8 and SF6. The quantum yield of carbon monoxide has been determined at both wavelengths as a function of pressure and temperature. At 3660 Å the quantum yield decreases with increasing pressure but increases with increasing temperature. At 3130 Å the quantum yield with ketene alone remains 2.0 at both 37 and 100 °C at pressures up to 250 mm. At higher pressures of ketene or with added inert gas the quantum yield decreases with increasing pressure. The results are interpreted in terms of a mechanism in which intersystem crossing from the excited singlet state to the triplet state occurs at both wavelengths, and collisional deactivation of the excited singlet state by ketene is single stage at 3660 Å but multistage at 3130 Å.



The contribution to naphthalene and pyrene triplet state formation of intersystem crossing from the excited singlet state has been determined for both cyclohexane and benzene solutions using the singlet state quenchers nitromethane and xenon. In agreement with the conclusions reported in part II, intersystem crossing plays an important role; under certain conditions up to 50 % of the total triplet yield in naphthalene-cyclohexane solutions has this origin. The extinction coefficient for naphthalene triplet absorption in cyclohexane at λ max = 412.5 nm is 20 000 ± 5000 1 mol -1 cm -1 .



1976 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 1248-1255 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Strähle ◽  
W. Seitz ◽  
H. Güsten

The electronic absorption spectra, absolute fluorescence spectra and fluorescence quantum yields as well as the fluorescence decay times of nine 1,3-diphenyl-2-pyrazolines substituted in the para-position of the 1-phenyl ring and of 19 substituted in the paraposition of the 3-phenyl ring were measured in degassed benzene at room temperature. The fluorescence quantum yields are about 0.90 with the exception of the NO2- and J-substituted 1,3-diphenyl-2-pyrazolines. The fluorescence decay time ranges from 2 to 4 nsec. The natural fluorescence lifetimes determined experimentally agree well with those calculated from the absorption spectra according to STRICKLER and BERG. A plot of the Hammett σp-values versus the energies of the absolute fluorescence maxima of the psubstituted 1- and 3-phenyl ring of the 2-pyrazoline system shows a statistically significant linear correlation with moderate precision. The linearity between ground state substituent constants and fluorescence energies reveals that the relative importance of the inductive and the resonance effects of the substituents remains constant during the transition from the ground state to the relaxed excited singlet state. In the excited singlet state of 1,3-diphenyl-2-pyrazoline the p-substituents provide more room for a larger charge displacement in the intramolecular charge-transfer. The structural bands in the fluorescence spectra resulting from strong electron accepting substituents in the para-position of the 1-phenyl ring are considered as the result of the ring breathing vibration due to a local excitation of the 1-phenyl ring.



The method of flash photolysis has been used for direct measurement of the quantum yields of triplet formation in dilute chlorophyll solutions at 23 °C. In ether solution, the triplet yields were found to be 0⋅64 and 0⋅88 for chlorophyll a and b , respectively. In very dry hydro­carbon solution, the yields decrease by at least a factor of 5. It is suggested that the low yields of fluorescence and intersystem crossing in dry solvents are due to dissociation of excited singlet dimer chlorophyll into ground state monomer species.



2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Al-Omari

Using vis absorption, fluorescence spectral experimental data, and time-resolved measurement, we have examined the kinetics of Zinc(II)-2,9,16,23-phthalocyanine tetracarboxylate ( ZnPc ( COONa )4), which is interesting photosensitizer of far red-absorption in water: NaOH solution. The kinetic parameters were measured and/or calculated. The photophysical properties originate principally from the planar macrocycle while the outer substituent and degree of carboxylation seem not to have a considerable influence on the kinetic parameters. The nonradiative rate constants of the first excited state were dominant due to the heavy metal effect. Using the obtained photophysical parameters, the population dynamics were calculated by kinetic model. On nanosecond scale of 15 ns, about 63% population of the first excited-singlet state is retrieved by the ground state. Whereas, the rest of population are deactivated to the first excited-triplet state. Later on, during about 7 μs starting from the initial decay of the first excited singlet state, the first excited singlet state and the first excited triplet state were completely empty, meanwhile the ground state retrieved its initial population. Due to the fact that ZnPc ( COONa )4 has strong absorption, long lifetimes of the first singlet and triplet excited states, and fast intersystem crossing, it may be suitable for nonlinear optical studies.



2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (9) ◽  
pp. 1146-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
S A Fleming ◽  
L Renault ◽  
E C Grundy ◽  
J A Pincock

The photochemistry of the (E)-cinnamyl acetates ((E)-1-aryl-3-propenyl acetates, 8a–8e) with substituents H, 4-CH3O, 3-CH3O, 4-CF3, and 3-CF3, respectively, was examined in both cyclohexane and methanol solvents. Alkene isomerization (E to Z) occurred more efficiently than other reactions and evidence is presented that this process occurs from the excited triplet state. In a slower process, 1,3-migration of the acetoxy group led to the rearranged 3-aryl-3-propenyl acetate isomers (9a–9e) as the major pathway, particularly in cylohexane. In methanol, the isomeric ethers 3-aryl-3-methoxypropene (14) and 1-aryl-3-methoxypropene (15) were formed by reaction of methanol with the photochemically generated cation. The combined yield of 14 and 15 (95% and 5%, respectively) was quantitative for the 4-methoxyphenyl compound (8b). Independent irradiations of the isomers 9a–9c demonstrated that the ethers 14 and 15 were primary photoproducts from 8 and not secondary photoproducts from 9. Fluorescence quantum yields and excited singlet state lifetimes indicated that the reactions, other than the E to Z isomerization, are from the excited singlet state.Key words: cinnamyl acetates, photochemistry, E/Z isomerization, photocleavage, fluorescence.



2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 763-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jóhannes Reynisson ◽  
Robert Wilbrandt ◽  
Vibeke Brinck ◽  
Bo W. Laursen ◽  
Kasper Nørgaard ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (48) ◽  
pp. 6136-6139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Lu ◽  
Hongmin Li ◽  
Manabu Abe ◽  
Didier Bégué ◽  
Huabin Wan ◽  
...  

Two prototypical sulfamoyl nitrenes R2NS(O)2–N (R = H and Me) in the triplet state were generated via the closed-shell singlet state by passing a low-energy minimum energy crossing point (MECP).



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