Photophysics and photochemistry of ring-fluorinated stilbenes

Autor: W. Luettke, K. Rauch, Ernst Fischer, A. Jakob, Nelly Castel, K.A. Muszkat
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry. 56:219-226
ISSN: 1010-6030
DOI: 10.1016/1010-6030(91)80022-a
Popis: The absorption and emission spectra, E – Z photo-interconversion, photocyclization of the Z isomers, and transient triplet-triplet (T-T) absorption of five fluoro stilbenes were studied over a wide temperature range, down to 90 K, and compared with stilbene. All five compounds form stable Z (cis) isomers on irradiation, but photocyclization takes place only in the absence of fluorine substitution at the 2,6,2′,6′ positions or the 2,6 positions. For the stilbenes fluorinated in these positions, the quantum yields of E → Z photoconversion and of E fluorescence vary much less on cooling than in stilbene. The fluorescence yield of all the Z isomers is very small even at −180 °C. T-T transients are detected at −170 °C as with trans -stilbene. Their lifetimes are lower than those of stilbene.
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