Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.109, No.17, 7354-7361, 1998
Magnetic-field effects on the recombination fluorescence of anthracene cation and perfluorocarbon anions
The recombination fluorescence from anthracene that has been photoionized at 188 nm in isooctane solutions containing low concentrations of either perfluorocyclobutane (C4F8) or perfluorobenzene (C6F6) has been examined as a function of magnetic-field strength. Level crossing resonances are found at magnetic-field positions predicted by the theory of a hyperfine driven spin evolution on the perfluoroanion (i.e., 0, 452, 757, and 903 G for C4F8 and at 0, 411, and 822 G for C6F6) The widths of the zero-field resonances have been studied as a function of perfluorocarbon concentration. For perfluorocyclobutane, the peak to peak widths of the derivative spectra vary from 6.8 to 13 G over a concentration range from 0.005 to 0.21 M. This variation is quantitatively predicted using the analytic solution to the time-dependent diffusion equation in a Coulomb field to determine how the distribution function for thermalized electron-cation distances evolves into its concentration dependent counterpart for anion-cation separation distances. For perfluorobenzene, the widths are observed to vary over a wider range from 3.0 to 38.5 G for concentrations from 0.0044 to 0.13 M. The additional concentration broadening in this case is consistent with previous estimates of the spin-dephasing rate constant for C6F6-C6F6- charge exchange.
Keywords:MOLECULAR CHARGE-TRANSFER, N;N;N';N'-TETRAMETHYL-PARA-PHENYLENEDIAMINE TMPD, NONPOLAR LIQUIDS, ELECTRON, YIELD;HEXAFLUOROBENZENE, TETRAMETHYLSILANE, PHOTOIONIZATION;TEMPERATURE, IONIZATION