Acid Effect on Photobase Properties of Curcumin

Autor: Yuval Erez, Dan Huppert, Rinat Gepshtein, Tal Schwartz, Katherine Akulov, Ron Simkovitch
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 118:2470-2479
ISSN: 1520-5215
1089-5639
DOI: 10.1021/jp501061p
Popis: Femtosecond UV-vis pump-probe spectroscopy was employed to study the acid effect on curcumin in the excited state. Curcumin in solutions of weak acids was found to be a photobase forming a protonated curcumin within a few tens of picoseconds from the time of excitation. The excited-state protonation reaction is also observed in the steady-state emission spectrum as a new red emission band with a maximum at 620 nm in the presence of weak acids. The transient pump-probe spectrum consists of four spectral bands, two emission bands, and two absorption bands. We assign a transient absorption band at ∼600 nm and an emission band at ∼540 nm to the neutral ROH form of curcumin. An absorption band at ∼500 nm and an emission band at 620 nm are assigned to the protonated ROH2(+) form of curcumin.
Databáze: OpenAIRE