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Ground and excited state proton transfer of some carbazole derivatives : A linear correlation between the acidity constant and charge density on the deprotonation centre

✍ Scribed by Pradipta Purkayastha; Subhash Ch. Bera; Nitin Chattopadhyay


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
349 KB
Volume
88
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7322

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✦ Synopsis


The acidity constants of carbazole (CZ), 2-nitrocarbazole (NC), 2-methoxycarbazole (MOC) mad 3-methylcarbazole (MC) have been determined in the ground as well as in the lowest excited singlet state. The excited state acidity constant (pK*) has been estimated following Weller's fluorometric titration technique and the ground state acidity constant (pK) has been determined therefrom using the F~3rster cycle principle. Semi-empirical calculations (AM1-SCI) have been performed to calculate the charge density on the deprotonation centre (>N-) for the different probes. A good linear correlation exists between the acidity constants and the charge densities on the deprotonation centres in the respective electronic states.