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A series of pyridyl (pyridinium) substituted benzoxazoles were studied by steady state absorption, fluorescence spectroscopy, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, fs pulse absorption and polarization spectroscopy, and quantum–chemical calculations. The spectral and kinetic parameters of the fluorophores in MeCN and EtOAc were obtained experimentally and were calculated by means of DFT and TDDFT methods. A scheme including four transient excited states was proposed for the interpretation of differential absorption kinetics of the charged fluorophores. Expressions describing the actual kinetics graphs, the decay associated spectra, and the species-associated spectra were derived. The charge shift step was found to be dependent on average solvation times. A charge shift followed by the formation of the twisted conformer was found for the excited 1-ethyl-3-(5-phenyloxazol-2-yl)pyridinium 4-methyl-1-benzenesulfonate in MeCN and EtOAc. Conformational analysis confirms a large amplitude motion of the meta-substituted ethylpyridinium group as an additional structural relaxation path producing an abnormally large fluorescence Stokes shift.
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This work was supported by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (in respect of the femtosecond pump and probe setup), Government Assignment 0082-2019-0001, registration no. AAAA-A19-119012890064-7. The authors wish to thank Prof. B. M. Bolotin for the compounds provided.
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Volchkov, V.V., Khimich, M.N., Rusalov, M.V. et al. Intramolecular photo-driven charge transfer in a series of pyridyl substituted phenyloxazoles. Structural relaxation in meta-substituted ethylpyridinium derivative of phenyloxazole. Photochem Photobiol Sci 20, 1419–1428 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43630-021-00103-0
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