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    Dual fluorescence of 9-anthryl-substituted oligothiophenes in nonpolar environment
    (1994) Emele, Peter; Meyer, Dirk U.; Holl, Norbert; Port, Helmut; Wolf, Hans Christoph; Würthner, Frank; Bäuerle, Peter; Effenberger, Franz
    9-Anthryl-oligothiophenes (9A-Tn, n = 1–4) have been studied in n-hexane solution between helium and room temperature using absorption, fluorescence emission and excitation spectra and time resolved fluorescence measurements. These compounds are reference systems for studies on intramolecular energy and charge transfer in donor/acceptor-substituted conjugated chain molecules. The absorption spectra show contribution of both substituents anthracene and oligothiophene, but no additional bands due to mixed electronic states. Dual fluorescence is observed at Tgreater-or-equal, slanted 120 K for the compounds 9A-Tn (n = 1–3), but not for 9A-T4. Time resolved spectroscopy reveals a dynamical coupling between the two emission components whose relative quantum yields are strongly temperature dependent. The occurrence of the dual fluorescence is explained by an intramolecular torsional motion between the two molecular subunits.
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    Lowest excited singlet states of α-9-anthrylpolyenes
    (1993) Holl, Norbert; Emele, Peter; Port, Helmut; Wolf, Hans Christoph; Strobel, Hartmut; Kesmarszky, Thomas; Effenberger, Franz
    Properties of the electronically excited states of α-9-anthrylpolyenes are studied in n-hexane solutions by using optical absorption, emission and fluorescence excitation spectroscopy. The absorption spectra reveal a complex structure with contributions of both anthracene and polyene type bands but also of bands with mixed anthracence/polyene character. Small amounts of remaining impurities are chemically not separable but can be detected via fluorescence measurements. By computer-aided decomposition of spectra measured under variable selective excitation the actual, clearly chain-length dependent, fluorescences could be obtained.