title: Photochemistry of rose bengal in water and acetonitrile: a comprehensive kinetic analysis.
abstract: The photophysical and photochemical properties of rose bengal (RB) in degassed aqueous and acetonitrile solutions were studied using steady-state and transient absorption spectroscopies. This comprehensive investigation provides detailed information about the kinetics and the optical properties of all intermediates involved: the triplet excited state and the oxidized and reduced forms of RB. A full kinetic description is used to control the concentrations of these intermediates by changing the initial experimental conditions.
authors.affiliation: RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic. hegerd@chemi.muni.cz klan@sci.muni.cz.
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ludvíková
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Friš
authors.forename: Dominik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Heger
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Šebej
authors.forename: Jakob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wirz
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Klán