Photodimers of a soluble tetracene derivative. excimer fluorescence from the head-to-head isomer

…, A Del Guerzo, JP Desvergne, H Bouas-Laurent

Index: Fages, Frederic; Desvergne, Jean-Pierre; Bouas-Laurent, Henri Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de France, 1985 , # 5 p. 959 - 964

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Abstract

Tetracene was found to photodimerize at a lower rate than anthracene. 2d By irradiation of a suspension in benzene (1 × 10 - 3 M), it was reported to form two photodimers: head-to-head (hh), or planosymmetric, and head-to-tail (ht), or centrosymmetric. 2c To our knowledge, no photodimer