N-methyl-6-hydroxyquinolinium: an investigation into the spectroscopy and applications of excited-state proton transfer
N-methyl-6-hydroxyquinolinium (NM6HQ) is a powerful excited-state proton donor, exhibiting a huge pKa drop from 7.2 in the ground state to -7 in the excited state. The zwitterionic nature of the proton transfer product encourages intramolecular electron transfer away from the hydroxyl moiety to the...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24665 |