Ultrafast excited-state proton transfer from hydroxycoumarin-dipicolinium cyanine dyes

Ron Simkovitch, Einat Kisin-Finfer, Shay Shomer, Rinat Gepshtein, Doron Shabat, Dan Huppert*

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Abstract

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 pKa*<-2 and with an excited-state proton transfer to water with a rate constant of kPT=1.4×1011s-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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)45-53
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
Volume254
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Feb 2013

Funding

FundersFunder number
Israel Science Foundation

    Keywords

    • Excited-state proton transfer
    • Geminate recombination
    • Laser induced processes
    • Near infrared cyanine dye
    • Photoacid
    • Ultrafast phenomena

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