Model Systems for Chlorophyll Photochemistry: Retention of Fluorescence at High Chlorophyll Density at a Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Interface

摘要

Many model systems containing chlorophyll show concentration quenching of fluorescence at quite moderate occupancies of the available phase space. A new kind of model system has been introduced, involving adsorption of chlorophyll and certain other amphiphilic substances to particles of polyethylene swollen with hydrocarbons, in which fluorescence is retained at coverages approaching a monolayer. In the example illustrated, the fluorescence lifetime is undiminished in spite of evidence for the prescence of associated chlorophyll species along with the monomer. The preservation of fluorescence is probably owing to a combination of high viscosity in the swollen polyethylene phase and the presence of a surfactant to keep the chlorophyll in monomeric and well-defined associated forms. (ERA citation 08:005758)