title: Effects of ionic liquid [bmim][PF6] on absorption spectra and reaction kinetics of the duroquinone triplet state in acetonitrile.
abstract: The transient absorption spectra and photoinduced electron-transfer process of duroquinone (DQ) in mixed binary solutions of ionic liquid (IL) [bmim][PF6] and acetonitrile (MeCN) have been investigated by laser photolysis at an excitation wavelength of 355 nm. A spectral blue shift of 3DQ* was observed in the IL/MeCN mixtures compared to MeCN. At lower VIL(volume fraction of IL), the interaction between DQ and the solvent is dominant, and the decay rate constant (kobs) of 3DQ* increases steadily with the increasing of VIL; to the contrary, at higher VIL, the network structures due to the hydrogen bond and viscosity are dominant, and the decay rate constant decreases obviously with increasing VIL. A critical point (turnover) was observed at VIL = approximately 0.30. The dependence of the observed growth rate (kgr) of the photoinduced electron-transfer (PET) products on VIL is complex and shows a special change; kgr first decreases with increasing VIL, then increases, and finally decreases slowly with further increasing of VIL. It is speculated that the PET process in the mixture can be affected by factors including the local structure and the reorganization energy of the solvent and salt and cage effects. The change of local structure of [bmim][PF6]/MeCN is supported by following the steady-state fluorescence behavior of the mixture, in combination with the molecular dynamics simulation of the thermodynamic property. The results revealed that the degree of self-aggregation of monomeric cations (bmim+) to associated forms increases with increasing VIL. This is in good agreement with the laser photolysis results for the same solutions.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 800-204, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Guanglai
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Guozhong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Maolin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sha
authors.forename: Dewu
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Side
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yao