2021•Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsRequires access
From fluorogens to fluorophores by elucidation and suppression of ultrafast excited state processes of a Schiff base
Souradip Dasgupta, Shrobona Banerjee, Sharmistha Das, Anindya Datta
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Abstract
Ultrafast nonradiative deactivation pathways of salampy, a weakly emissive Schiff base, are arrested upon deprotonation and more so upon complexation with Zn 2+ and Al 3+ , resulting in stronger, longer lived fluorescence.