Measurements of Acetone Fluorescence and Phosphorescence at High Pressures and Temperatures
Laser-induced fluorescence and phosphorescence signals of liquid acetone at pressures from 1 to 15 atm were measured and analyzed. Liquid acetone, which was preprocessed to minimize any dissolved oxygen, was injected as a low velocity jet into a pressurized chamber with either an air or nitrogen co-flow. The actone was excited at 266 nm. The laser-induced fluorescence intensity from the liquid was found to be invariant with pressure and co-flow conditions. The measured phosphorescence lifetimes were also found to independent of pressure, for both nitrogen and air environments. The phosphorescence lifetime for the liquid was measured to be ~1 μs, which is significantly smaller than the lifetime for acetone vapor (200 μs). This is likely due to self-quenching by acetone. The effect is further seen in the phosphorescence to fluorescence (P/F) ratio comparison between the liquid and vapor. The P/F ratio for liquid is 0.012, which is much smaller than the vapor value of 9.0. The overall phosphorescence intensities, however, were seen to decrease in the air co-flow cases compared to the nitrogen co-flow. Diffusion of oxygen into the liquid jet was observed, and the estimated concentration was found to be a few orders of magnitude less than the saturated concentration.
Room temperature phosphorescence in the liquid state as a tool in analytical chemistry
A wide-ranging overview of room temperature phosphorescence in the liquid state (RTPL1) is presented, with a focus on recent developments. RTPL techniques like micelle-stabilized (MS)-RTP, cyclodextrin-induced (CD)-RTP, and heavy atom-induced (HAI)-RTP are discussed. These techniques are mainly applied in the stand-alone format, but coupling with some separation techniques appears to be feasible. Applications of direct, sensitized and quenched phosphorescence are also discussed. As regards sensitized and quenched RTP, emphasis is on the coupling with liquid chromatography (LC) and capillary electrophoresis (CE), but stand-alone applications are also reported. Further, the application of RTPL in immunoassays and in RTP optosensing—the optical sensing of analytes based on RTP—is reviewed. Next to the application of RTPL in quantitative analysis, its use for the structural probing of protein conformations and for time-resolved microscopy of labelled biomolecules is discussed. Finally, an overview is presented of the various analytical techniques which are based on the closely related phenomenon of long-lived lanthanide luminescence. The paper closes with a short evaluation of the state-of-the-art in RTP and a discussion on future perspectives.
Time-resolved micelle-stabilized room-temperature phosphorimetry for simultaneous determination of gallium and indium
Ga(III) and In(III) react with 7-iodo-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulphonic acid (Ferron) in the presence of CTAB micelles, forming complexes which exhibit analytically useful room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP). The RTP features of the two complexes are similar and the RTP spectra overlap. However, there is sufficient difference between the two phosphorescence decay rates for both metals to be determined by time-resolved room-temperature phosphorimetry.