Ultrafast excited-state proton transfer from hydroxycoumarin-dipicolinium cyanine dyes
作者:Ron Simkovitch、Einat Kisin-Finfer、Shay Shomer、Rinat Gepshtein、Doron Shabat、Dan Huppert
DOI:10.1016/j.jphotochem.2013.01.004
日期:2013.2
The photoprotolytic properties of a recently synthesized photoacid, hydroxycoumarin-dipicolinium salt (HCD) were studied by means of time-resolved emission techniques. We found that HCD is a super-photoacid with pK*(a) < -2 and with an excited-state proton transfer to water with a rate constant of k(PT) = 1.4 x 10(11) s(-1). We also found that HCD undergoes ESPT in a large number of protic solvents. The kinetic isotope effect is about two for water, methanol and ethanol. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.