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It is shown that at 295 K in meso-orthonitrophenyl-substituted octaethylporphyrins and their chemical dimers the steric interactions of the nitro-group and the volume substituents at β-positions of the pyrrole rings favor direct overlapping of molecular orbitals in a donor-acceptor pair. The efficient quenching of fluorescence of the nitroporphyrins in toluene is attributed to direct nonadiabatic electron transfer from the S1-level of a porphyrin to the lower-lying state with charge transfer by the “through-space” mechanism. Quenching of the T1-states is related with heat-stimulated transmission to the higher-lying states with charge transfer of the ion-radical pair as well as with enhancement of the probability of the nonradiative T1→S0-transition.
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Reported at the VIIIth International Conference on Spectroscopy of Porphyrins and Their Analogs, Minsk, September 22–26, 1998.
Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 70, F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 531–535, July–August, 1999.
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Knyukshto, V.N., Zen'kevich, É.I., Sagun, E.I. et al. Photophysical properties of mesonitrophenyl-substituted porphyrins and their dimers at 295 K. J Appl Spectrosc 66, 588–592 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02675391
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