Unusual 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) spectrophotometric behavior in water/ethanol and water/DMSO mixtures

  • GRACETTO, Augusto C.
  • BATISTELA, Vagner R.
  • CAETANO, Wilker
  • OLIVEIRA, Hueder P. M. de
  • SANTOS, Willy Glen
  • CAVALHEIRO, Carla C. S.
  • HIOKA, Noboru
Publication date
January 2010
Publisher
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
ISSN
0103-5053
Journal
Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society

Abstract

The absorption spectra of DPH at fixed concentration do not change with water content in organic solvents. It exhibits monomer bands, such as those obtained in ethanol. The absorption did not change for solutions up to 54 and 46% of water in ethanol and DMSO, respectively, for [DPH] = 5.0 × 10-6 mol L-1 at 30 °C. However, at the same experimental conditions, a gradual sharp decay of the DPH fluorescence is observed. It is proposed that water molecules below these water concentration limits act as quenchers of the excited states of DPH. Stern-Volmer quenching constants by intensities measurements are 7.4 × 10-2 (water/ethanol) and 2.6 × 10-2 L mol-1 (water/DMSO). DPH lifetime measurements in the absence and presence of water resulted in 7.1 ...

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