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PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 459-466Publisher
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DOI: 10.1039/b600009f
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The photophysical behaviour of a new pyrene derivative, 1-(4-N,N-dimethylaminophenylethynyl) pyrene (DMAPEPy), in various solvents has been studied. Due to the presence of an ethynyl link with a cylindrical pi cloud between the donor (N,N-dimethyl group) and the acceptor (pyrene), the molecule shows efficient intramolecular charge transfer, with a high extinction coefficient in all the solvents. There is significant solvatochromism in the fluorescence with a large increase in the Stokes' shift of around 125 nm between n-hexane and acetonitrile. The solvent-dependent spectral data show a good correlation with the Kamlet-Taft solvent polarity parameter (pi*). The plots of Stokes' shifts with E-T(30) are linear for non-protic solvents and for protic solvents but with different slopes. The fluorescence quantum yields are high for non-polar solvents and decrease as the solvent polarity increases. Unlike the parent molecule pyrene, DMAPEPy shows a short lifetime, which is fairly insensitive to oxygen-induced quenching and is dependent on solvent polarity. The molecule shows high steady-state fluorescence anisotropy, which is very sensitive to the viscosity change of the medium.
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