Chemiexcitation efficiency for the charge-transfer-induced chemiluminescent decomposition of 3-hydroxyphenyl-substituted dioxetanes in an aqueous system
摘要:
The decomposition of 3-oxyphenyl-3-methoxy-4-(2'-spiroadamantane)-1,2-dioxetane (A) and 5-tertbutyl-4,4-dimethy1-1-(3-oxyphenyl)bicyclo[3.2.01heptane (B) in NaOH/H2O gives light in poor yield, which is several orders of magnitude lower than that in aprotic solvents. To understand the poor chemiluminescence efficiency in NaOH/H2O, we investigated the behaviors of the authentic emitters, methyl 3oxidobenzoate (C) and 2,2,4,4-tetramethy1-3-oxopentyl 3-oxidobenzoate (D). We found that D was weakly fluorescent though hydrolyzed in NaOH/H2O, and estimated that the singlet-chemiexcitation efficiency Os was 6.1 x 10(-3) for the decomposition of B in NaOH/H2O. On the other hand, Os for A could not be estimated, since C was hydrolyzed too rapidly to observe its fluorescence. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.