Free Volume Dependence of the Internal Rotation of a Molecular Rotor Probe in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids
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- 作者：Aniruddha Paul ; Anunay Samanta
- 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- 出版年：2008
- 出版时间：December 25, 2008
- 年：2008
- 卷：112
- 期：51
- 页码：16626-16632
- 全文大小：271K
- 年卷期：v.112,no.51(December 25, 2008)
- ISSN：1520-5207
文摘
The fluorescence efficiency of a well-known microviscosity probe, 9-(dicyanovinyl)julolidine (DCVJ), which is highly sensitive to the viscosity of the medium, has been studied in seven imidazolium ionic liquids (ILs) of varying viscosities over a temperature range of 10−60 °C. The microviscosities around the probe in different ILs have been estimated from the linear dependence of the logarithm of fluorescence quantum yield (log Φf) on the logarithm of the bulk viscosity (log η) in various conventional solvents of different viscosities at room temperature. These microviscosities, which represent the local environments around the probe, are found to be significantly different from the directly measured bulk viscosities of these ILs. The log Φf vs log (η/T) plots, which are also expected to be linear, interestingly show a bilinear behavior in more viscous ILs with a break around 28−30 °C. The observation of a similar break in the Arrhenius plots of the rate constant of the internal rotation in DCVJ and absence of any such break in the temperature dependence of the mobility of the ILs allow us to determine the important role of the free volume around the probe in dictating the nonradiative deactivation rate or the fluorescence efficiency of DCVJ. The break in the plots, which implies a change in the available free volume around the probe at 28−30 °C, presumably arises from the repositioning of the probe from one environment to a different one of these microheterogeneous ILs with change of temperature.