Co-Authors:
Rosenthal, I., Department of Organic Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Abstract:
Singlet molecular oxygen generated photochemically by rubrene sensitization or by direct excitation in a microwave‐discharged stream of oxygen at low pressure is physically quenched by superoxide radical ion in aprotic media, with a quenching rate kq = 3.6 ± 0.1 × 107 M−1 s−1. Copyright © 1975 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim