The lowest excited states of maleic acid- and cyclopentendionderivatives have been investigated by UV-absorption and phosphorescence emission spectroscopy. While the first excited singlet-state S1 is of 1(nπ*)-type in all compounds, the lowest triplet-state T1 was found to be a mixture of 3(nπ*) and 3(ππ*)-configurations. For the emitting derivatives (Ζ ≠ Η) phosphorescence-lifetimes and -quantum yields as well as the probability for intersystem crossing have been determined.
Considering the inductive effects of all substituents on the S1 (nπ*) -energy, Coulombpotentials for sulfur and iodine in terms of Huckel-parameters: hs = 0,2 and hj = —0,5 have been derived.
The results of Hückel-MO-calculations can be correlated to the measured values of all compounds with the exception of the iodine containing derivatives.
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