Mobility of geminate radical ions in concentrated alkane solutions as measured using electric field dependence of delayed fluorescence

The effect of an electric field on the reaction kinetics of a charge carrier migrating within a one-dimensional chain

The aim of this study is to suggest a novel approach for estimating the intramolecular mobility of a charge carrier that migrates within a polymer chain and is involved in a pair reaction with a particle located on the same chain. The approach is based on the effect of an external electric field on the migration rate and, consequently, the kinetics of the reaction. As a first step, this problem is considered a stochastic one-step process with absorbing and reflecting boundaries, and an analytical solution is obtained in the case that the second reactant is immobile. With the use of computer simulations of stochastic migration, the effect of the mobility of both reactants and the influence of the Coulomb interaction between them are considered. It is found that the ratio of the pair reaction rates with and without an external field is relatively little dependent on these factors and that the analytical expressions derived can be applied to estimate the relative mobility of recombining particles with accuracy better than a factor of two in many realistic situations.

Estimation of the Fraction of Spin-Correlated Radical Ion Pairs in Irradiated Alkanes using Magnetosensitive Recombination Luminescence from Exciplexes Generated upon Recombination of a Probe Pair

We suggest a convenient probe exciplex system for studies in radiation spin chemistry based on a novel acceptor-substituted diphenylacetylene, 1-(phenylethynyl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzene that has a very short fluorescence lifetime (<200 ps) and low quantum yield (0.01) of intrinsic emission, provides efficient electron capture in alkanes and efficient exciplex formation upon recombination in pair with DMA radical cation, while exhibiting a shifted to red exciplex emission band as compared to the parent system DMA – diphenylacetylene. After chemical, luminescent, radiation and spin-chemical characterization of the new system we used the magnitude of magnetic field effect in its exciplex emission band for experimental estimation of the fraction of spin-correlated radical ion pairs under X-irradiation with upper energy cutoff 40 keV in a set of 11 alkanes. For linear and branched alkanes magnetic field effects and the corresponding fractions are approximately 19–20% and 0.28, while for cyclic alkanes they are lower at 16–17% and 0.22, respectively.

Semiempirical Formula for the Estimation of Organic Radical Ion Mobility in Liquid n-Alkanes

The mobilities of radical ions of a series of organic compounds in n-alkanes with viscosities within the range of 0.2-4 cP were determined by applying the method of time-resolved electric field effect. The obtained data were used to express the correlation between the mobilities and solvent viscosity in the form of the modified Stokes-Einstein relation. The relation was parametrized in such a way that the specific molecular properties of both solvent and solute appear in the expression only as the ratio of the volumes of their molecules. A significant difference between aromatic and aliphatic compounds was found with respect to the dependence of radical ion mobility on this volume ratio, and two different parametrizations were suggested for mobility estimation in these cases.