Abstract
Abstract— Ascorbic acid and ascorbate in chlorophyll ethanol solution were found to be fairly efficient quenchers of the chlorophyll triplet state; comparable to the efficiency of ascorbic acid as a quencher in aqueous pyridine solution.It has been well established that ascorbic acid quenches the triplet state of chlorophyll in aqueous pyridine solution.(1,2) The bimolecular quenching constant, kQ, is very much less than that for O2 or quinine.(3,4)Information regarding the quenching of the triplet state of chlorophyll by ascorbic acid in ethanolic solution is lacking. There has been some question as to whether ascorbic acid reduces photoexcited chloro‐phyll‐ethanolic solution because of its high oxidation potential, or because like the ascorbate ion, it acts only as a quencher; both ascorbic acid and ascorbate in high concentrations gave low quantum yields.(5) The quenching of the triplet state by ascorbic acid and ascorbate was determined by the flash‐photolytic method.
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