Kinetics of the triplet state of 2,3-dichloroquinoxaline from microwave-induced phosphorescence transients

Abstract

The phosphorescent state of 2,3-dichloroquinoxaline doped into single crystals of durene and 1,2,4,5-tetrachlorobenzene has been studied using several methods based upon optical detection of magnetic resonance (ODMR). Flash excitation and continuous optical pumping methods are described and analysed. Phosphorescent transient effects caused by spin-lattice relaxation and variable intersystem crossing rates are observed and described using first-order solutions of the appropriate rate equations. The effects of spatial polarization of the phosphorescence (anisotropic spatial distribution of phosphorescence intensity) of single crystals on ODMR signals is observed and discussed. The spatial polarization of emission can cause difficulties in determining relative radiative rate constants of the triplet sublevels in oriented samples, but can yield information about the linear polarization of the emission analogous to that obtained by conventional means using polarizers.