MU Chemistry 416 FS97

Solvatochromism in Optical Spectropscopy



Solvents and Solvent Effects in Organic Chemistry Christian Reichardt, VCH Verlag, 2nd ed., 1990.
The best book on the market. Many references. Wonderful detail. I used this book for most examples discussed in the lecture.

Solvatochromism. P. Suppan and N. Ghoneim, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1997. ISBN 0-85404-419-1.
A new book on solvent effects of electron spectra.

The Comparative Solvatochromism of Arylazo and Heteroarylazo Compounds Based on N,N-Diethyl-m-acetylaminoaniline and N,N-Diethyl-m-toluidine. M. G. Hutchings, P. Gregory, J. S. Campbell, A. Strong, J.-P. Zamy, A. Lepre, A. Mills Chem. Eur. J. 1997, 3, 1719-1727.
A very detailed study using Reichardt's and Kamlet-Taft solvent polarity parameters. The key issue in this paper concerns the solvent dependence of the s-cis and s-trans equilibrium (p. 1724). This conformaton changes the molecule dipole moment and the solvatochromism parallels the magnitude of the dipole moment.