The Hammett correlation between distyrylbenzene substituents and chemiluminescence efficiency providing various ρ-values for peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence of several oxalates
作者:Takayuki Maruyama、Susumu Narita、Jiro Motoyoshiya
DOI:10.1016/j.jphotochem.2012.12.006
日期:2013.1
Peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence (PO-CL) was investigated using eight oxalates with various phenol moieties and the distyrylbenzene (DSB) fluorophores with various substituents. The rho-values in the Hammett correlation between the substituent constants (sigma(+)(p)) of the DSBs and the singlet chemiexcitation yields (Phi(s)) for the PO-CL reactions varied from -0.50 to -1.01 depending on the oxalate structure, and the reactive oxalates tended to afford the higher absolute rho-values but with a few exceptions. Based on the CIEEL mechanism, these experimental observations suggest that the aryloxy groups still remain in the 1,2-dioxetanones (DOTs), which are the postulated high-energy intermediates, and control the electronic properties of DOTs as electron-acceptors. The LUMO energies of the DOTs calculated by the ab initio method with a B3LYP/6-31g(d) basis set reveal that the lower the DOT-LUMO energies, the higher the absolute rho-values were provided for the corresponding oxalates, as predicted by the frontier molecular orbital (FMO) theory. Thus, the chemical species interacting with the DSBs would be not unitary and will be DOTs. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.