Influence of solvents and temperature on the excited state characteristics of coumarin laser dyes (original) (raw)

The present work deals with the effect of solvents and temperature on the photophysical propertJes of 4-methyl-7-aminocoumarin (I), and 4-methyl-7-dimethylaminocoumaxin (II). Change of solvent gives rise to Stokes' shift but due to specific interactions, the excited state dipole moments cannot be calcu]ated. Experimental values of percentage po_ ]axization in different polar solvents indicate the formation of 1:1 solute-solvent exciplexes/intermolecular hydrogen bonding. Further, it is observe(] that the fluorescence intensity decreases with increase in temperature for the compound II, but remains constant for compound I. Tkis difference in behaviour is examined in terms of intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) and twisted intraraolecular charge transfer (TICT) states of the cournarin molecu]e.