Photochromism of naphthoxazine-spiro-indolines by direct excitation and following sensitisation by triplet-energy donors
作者:Jonathan Hobley、Francis Wilkinson
DOI:10.1039/ft9969201323
日期:——
Quantum efficiencies of merocyanine formation, (ΦA), have been measured for several naphthoxy-spiro-indolines, (NOSIs) in a variety of solvents as well as in several polyurethane matrices having different glass-transition temperatures. In toluene solution ΦA values range from 0.74 to 0.33 with those compounds substituted with electron-donating substituents in the 6′-position on the oxazine ring giving the highest yields. Quantum yields for merocyanine formation are also sensitive to change of solvent, being the highest in toluene and the lowest in methanol. Interestingly, in highly viscous polyurethane matrices quantum yields are typically in the range 0.1 to 0.2. Surprisingly, replacing the methyl group on the nitrogen in the indoline part of the molecule with an isobutyl group has no effect on the quantum yield in either toluene or in a polyurethane matrix. Triplet-energy donation has been used to establish that a triplet pathway leading to merocyanine formation is available and that the efficiency of merocyanine formation via triplet-state sensitization is close to unity for each of the three derivatives studied in toluene as solvent. By using various triplet-energy donors and measuring the values of the resulting quenching rate constants the lowest triplet energy of 1,3,3-trimethylspiro(indoline-2,3′[3H]naphth[2,1-b]-6′-indolino[1,4]oxazine) has been determined as 200 ± 5 kJ mol–1 which is consistent with sensitization via the triplet state associated with the oxazine part of the molecule. For donors with triplet-state energies > 210 kJ mol–1 quenching constants were shown to reach a plateau value of 4.5 ± 0.3 × 109 dm3 mol–1 s–1.
我们测量了几种萘氧螺吲哚啉(NOSIs)在多种溶剂和几种具有不同玻璃跃迁温度的聚氨酯基质中形成美拉德腈的量子效率(ΦA)。在甲苯溶液中,ΦA 值从 0.74 到 0.33 不等,其中在噁嗪环的 6′-位上取代电子的化合物产量最高。形成美拉德菁的量子产率对溶剂的变化也很敏感,在甲苯中最高,在甲醇中最低。有趣的是,在高粘度聚氨酯基质中,量子产率通常在 0.1 到 0.2 之间。令人惊讶的是,用异丁基取代分子中吲哚啉部分氮上的甲基对甲苯和聚氨酯基质中的量子产率都没有影响。通过三重能捐献,我们确定了美拉德菁形成的三重态途径,而且在甲苯溶剂中研究的三种衍生物中,通过三重态敏化形成美拉德菁的效率都接近于统一。通过使用各种三重态能量供体并测量由此产生的淬灭速率常数的值,确定 1,3,3-三甲基螺(吲哚啉-2,3′[3H]萘并[2,1-b]-6′-吲哚啉并[1,4]恶嗪)的最低三重态能量为 200 ± 5 kJ mol-1,这与通过与分子中的恶嗪部分相关的三重态敏化是一致的。对于三重态能量大于 210 kJ mol-1 的供体,淬灭常数达到了 4.5 ± 0.3 × 109 dm3 mol-1 s-1 的高原值。