Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 114, Issue 31, Pages 8075-8082Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp103264y
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- Israel Science Foundation
- James-Franck German-Israeli Program
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Steady-state absorption and emission as well as time-resolved emission spectroscopies were employed to study the photophysics and photochemistry of D-luciferin, the firefly active bioluminescent compound. In aqueous solution the electronically excited-state protonated D-luciferin compound undergoes an efficient process of proton transfer to the solvent, with a rate constant k(PT) = 3.0 x 10(10) s(-1). We found a kinetic isotope effect of about 2.5 for this process. The deprotonated form of D-luciferin in the excited state recombines irreversibly with the geminate proton. Hence, the fluorescence decay of the deprotonated form is nonexponential, and the fluorescence quantum yield is low.
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