Altering the emission behavior with the turn of a thiophene ring: The photophysics of condensed ring systems of alternating benzenes and thiophenes

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2006, Pages 13754-13758

  Wex, Brigitte ^a,c   Kaafarani, Bilal R ^b   Danilov, Evgeny O ^a   Neckers, Douglas C ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOPHYSICS; QUANTUM YIELDS; THIOPHENE ORIENTATION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BENZENE; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OLEFINS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33846338141     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp065548s     Document Type: Article

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