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The dependence of absorption and fluorescence spectra, quantum yields, and lifetimes of fluorescence on the solvent composition in the MeOH-C5H12 and MeOH-MeCN mixtures was studied for 2,2,4,6-tetramethyl-1,2-dihydroquinoline (TMDHQ). The variations in the parameters of deconvolution of the absorption and fluorescence spectra by the Gaussian functions in the MeOH-C5H12 mixtures of various compositions indicate the specificity of methanol clustering in saturated hydrocarbons and hydrogen bonding between TMDHQ and the methanol clusters of different compositions. At low MeOH concentrations (∼0.2 vol %), TMDHQ molecules are practically completely bound with the MeOH molecules by hydrogen bonds. In the MeOH-MeCN mixtures, the changes in the absorption and fluorescence spectra are observed at a substantially higher MeOH concentration (≥10 vol %) and monotonically change at the further increase in the MeOH concentration that is caused by the peculiarities of MeOH clustering in acetonitrile and the distribution of the TMDHQ molecules between the solvent components. At 50–95 vol % of MeOH in the mixture with MeCN, the fluorescence decay kinetics is described by the biexponential curve with the lifetime of the major component (τ1) decreasing from 7.5 to 1.1 ns in pure MeCN and MeOH, respectively, and the lifetime of the minor component τ2 ≈ 4 ns corresponding to the fluorescence lifetime in the solution containing 50 vol % MeOH. This indicates the existence of the free TMDHQ molecules, which are not bound with MeOH molecules or their clusters.
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Original Russian Text © T.D. Nekipelova, V.A. Kuz’min, V.F. Razumov, V.Yu. Gak, 2009, published in Khimiya Vysokikh Energii, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 445–453.
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Nekipelova, T.D., Kuz’min, V.A., Razumov, V.F. et al. Effect of the solvent composition in methanol-pentane and methanol-acetonitrile mixtures on the spectral and luminescent properties of 1,2-dihydroquinolines. High Energy Chem 43, 391–399 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0018143909050105
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