A research team of scientists from the MBI and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg explore the first electronic excited state of 7-hydroxyquinoline to assess its photoacid and photobase behaviour.

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A combined ultrafast IR pump-probe study and density functional study enables the characterization of the four charged forms of 7-hydroxyquinoline, to determine the excited state charge redistribution and its role in photoinduced proton transfer pathways.

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2016-11-07 Topic 2 Funding

External funding by:
German Science Foundation (DFG) Project Nr. DFG - NI 492/13-1 / SE 1008/11-1.
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Characterizing the photophysical pathways of bifunctional photoacid 7-hydroxyquinoline in methanol