Fluorescence quenching of pyrene monomer and excimer by CH3I

Abstract The fluorescence quenching rate constants of pyrene monomer and excimer by CH 3 I were obtained at several temperatures in methylcyclohexane. Both quenching processes are kinetically controlled, allowing insight on the mechanism of quenching. The rate constants have both temperature-independent and temperature-dependent components. The temperature-independent component for both monomer and excimer fluorescence is consistent with quenching due to enhanced intersystem crossing to a lower energy triplet state. The monomer temperature-dependent component comes from the enhancement of the intersystem crossing to a higher energy triplet state. The thermally activated excimer quenching is associated with the excimer dissociation step to give a pyrene in a second triplet state plus a ground state pyrene molecule.

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