Competitive geminate quenching and geminate recombination reactions of 1-napthol

  • Ehud Pines
  • , Dimitry Tepper
  • , Ben Zion Magnes
  • , Dina Pines
  • , Tamar Barak

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Abstract

The back proton recombination following the photo-dissociation of 1-naphthol was studied by a time-correlated single-photon counting apparatus. The measured picosecond time-resolved fluorescence decay profiles were analyzed using the numerical solution of the Debye-Smoluchowski equation with coupled reversible and irreversible proton back-recombination reactions at the source. A full kinetic analysis shows that both the reversible geminate recombination reaction, which assumes at long times a t-3/2 dependence, and ihe irreversible geminate quenching reaction, which assumes at long times a t-1/2 dependence, are significant in determining the excited-state kinetics of 1-naphthol.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)504-510
Number of pages7
JournalBerichte der Bunsengesellschaft/Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume102
Issue number3
StatePublished - 1 Dec 1998

Keywords

  • Chemical kinetics
  • Diffusion
  • Isotope effects
  • Proton transfer
  • Solutions

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemical Engineering

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