Fluorescence quenching of biologically active carboxamide by aniline and carbon tetrachloride in different solvents using Stern-Volmer plots.

Fluorescence quenching of biologically active carboxamide namely (E)-2-(4-chlorobenzylideneamino)-N-(2-chlorophenyl)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[b]thiophene-3-carboxamide [ECNCTTC] by aniline and carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) quenchers in different solvents using steady state method and time resolved method using only one solvent has been carried out at room temperature to understand the role of quenching mechanisms. The Stern-Volmer plot has been found to be linear for all the solvents studied. The probability of quenching per encounter p (p') was determined in all the solvents and was found to be less than unity. Further, from the studies of rate parameters and life time measurements in n-heptane and cyclohexane with aniline and carbon tetrachloride as quenchers have been shown that, the phenomenon of quenching is generally governed by the well-known Stern-Volmer (S-V) plot. The activation energy Ea (or E'a) of quenching was determined using the literature values of activation energy of diffusion Ed and the experimentally determined values of p (or p'). It has been found that, the activation energy Ea (E'a) is greater than the activation energy for diffusion Ed in all solvents. Hence, from the magnitudes of Ea (or E'a) as well as p (or p') infer that, the quenching mechanism is not solely due to the material diffusion, but there is also contribution from the activation energy.

Solvent effect on absorption and fluorescence spectra of three biologically active carboxamides (C1, C2 and C3). Estimation of ground and excited state dipole moment from solvatochromic method using solvent polarity parameters.

The absorption and fluorescence spectra of three Carboxamides namely (E)-2-(4-Chlorobenzylideneamino)-N-(2-chlorophenyl)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[b]thiophene-3-carboxamide (C(1)), (E)-N-(3-Chlorophenyl)-2-(3, 4-dimethoxybenzylideneamino)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[b]thiophene-3-carboxamide (C(2)) and (E)-N-(3-Chlorophenyl)-2-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzylideneamino)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[b]thiophene-3-carboxamide (C(3)) have been recorded at room temperature in solvents of different polarities using dielectric constant (ε) and refractive index (n). Experimental ground (µ(g)) and excited (µ(e)) state dipole moments are estimated by means of solvatochromic shift method and also the excited dipole moments are estimated in combination with ground state dipole moments. It was estimated that dipole moments of the excited state were higher than those of the ground state of all three molecules. Further, the changes in dipole moment (Δµ) were calculated both from solvatochromic shift method and on the basis of microscopic empirical solvent polarity parameter (E(N)(T)) and the values are compared.