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Electrogenerated chemiluminescence from violanthrone.

T I Quickenden·K Hansongnern
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Violanthrone, an emitter of exceptionally bright chemiluminescence, was examined in dimethylformamide solution to determine whether it also emits particularly bright electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL). The ECL measurements were carried out using a cycled potential which was applied to platinum electrodes. At the maximum sweep rate of 80 V s-1 available, the intensity of the violanthrone ECL was still increasing with sweep rate and was c. 56% of that from rubrene, a bright, commonly used emitter of ECL. Furthermore, assuming that the emission arises from radical anion-cation recombination, the sweep rate dependence showed that the least stable radical ion (probably the cation) decays with a half-life shorter than 0.2 s.

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T I Quickenden, K Hansongnern. Electrogenerated chemiluminescence from violanthrone.. https://doi.org/10.1002/bio.1170100206

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