Effects of Charge Transfer on the ESIPT Process in Methyl 5-R-Salicylates

Kasha's rule: a reappraisal

This work revises some anomalous cases reported in the literature, which seemingly violate Kasha's rule. To the contrary, apart from azulene, the remaining molecules fulfill Kasha's rule. Kasha's rule must be stated just as in the seminal paper (M. Kasha, Discuss. Faraday Soc., 1950, 9, 14-19): "The emitting electronic level of a given multiplicity is the lowest excited level of that multiplicity". Therefore, Kasha's rule focuses on the emission (photophysics) for complex molecules, in condensed phase, for the absorption of one photon per molecule under photostationary conditions, then a rapid internal conversion and a vibrational relaxation warrant that the corresponding emission comes from the first excited electronic level regardless of which electronic state of equal multiplicity is excited.

Effects of different substituents of methyl 5-R-salicylates on the excited state intramolecular proton transfer process

The proton transfer reaction in methyl 5-R-salicylate is found to be highly sensitive to the presence of specific substituents in resonance with the hydroxyl group, leading to different fluorescence behaviors of methyl 5-R-salicylate with different substituents.

Chiroptical properties of dithia[3.3]cyclophanes composed of anthracene and pyridine/pyridinium moieties: A combined experimental and theoretical study

Circular dichroisms (CDs) of neutral and protonated [3.3]anthracenopyridinophane (1 and 1-H⁺ ) were investigated experimentally and theoretically. Introducing an anthracene moiety with extended conjugation affected the cyclophane structure with the bent angles being appreciably  reduced from those of parent [3.3]pyridinophane. The Cotton effects (CEs) observed at the ¹ B_b band for both 1 and 1-H⁺ were fairly strong and apparently bisignate, which, however, turned out not to be a simple exciton couplet but to be composed of multiple transitions. In contrast, the CEs were much weaker in the ¹ L_a band region. The spectral changes upon protonation were less significant compared with the parent pyridinophane, being dominated by the local transitions of anthracene. Nevertheless, the CD spectra of 1 and 1-H⁺ were well reproduced by theoretical calculations to allow us an unambiguous absolute configuration determination of the first high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) elute (from Chiralcel IB column) as S_p . The transannular interactions between the anthracene and pyridine/pyridinium units were examined by UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy to reveal a charge-transfer (CT) band in the low-energy region, particularly for 1-H⁺ . Despite the comparable CT interactions, the CE at the CT band was much stronger for the anthracenopyridinophane than for the parent pyridinophane, affording an anisotropy (g) factor as large as 4 × 10^-3 .