Picosecond proton ejection: an ultrafast pH jump

K. K. Smith*, K. J. Kaufmann, D. Huppert, M. Gutman

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Abstract

The rates of proton ejection from 2-naphthol-3,6-disulfonate (pK* = 0.5 ± 0.1) and 8-hydroxy 1,3,6-pyrene trisulfonate (pK* = 0.4 ± 0.1) have been found to be 3.1 × 1010 s-1 and 3.2 × 1010 s-1, respectively. This is in keeping with the scaling of the ejection rate inversely with the excited state pK*.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)522-527
Number of pages6
JournalChemical Physics Letters
Volume64
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jul 1979

Funding

FundersFunder number
American Chemical Society at the University of Illinois
National Science Foundation
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Tel Aviv University

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