Abstract
Fluorescence and fluorescence excitation spectra of terrylene in 9,10-dibromoanthracene matrix were studied at 5 K. Characteristic singlet oxygen phosphorescence, O 2( 1Δ g ) → O 2( 3Σ g ) with the line maximum at 1272.5 nm, was observed after excitation of terrylene molecules embedded into one of its two sites. It indicates that singlet oxygen, precursor in photo-oxidation of aromatic molecules, can be created only for those oxygen molecules which can form weak van der Waals complex with terrylene. According to quantum-chemical calculations terrylene and oxygen can form complex with the bonding energy 141 cm −1, in which oxygen molecule is located along the long axis of terrylene, ∼0.3 nm apart, with the molecular axis inclined by 110°.
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