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High Fluorescence Emissions Of Some Natural Benzofurane Derivatives Isolated From Styrax Officinalis, Siddik İçli̇, Hüseyi̇n Anil, Bi̇rcan Di̇ndar, Özgen Alankuş Çalişkan, Yurdanur Yayla, Andrey O. Doroshenko, Serap Alp

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The fluorescent properties of several natural benzofuran derivatives, egonols, isolated from {\it Styrax officinalis}, were determined. The studied egonol derivatives were found to be effective UV organic luminophores, with quantum yields of near to unity, \( \varphi_{f} \) = 0.92. The fluorescence quenching experiments with electron donor molecules of aniline, N,N-dimethylaniline and carbazolocarbazole, presented very high efficiency of quenching at above diffusion quenching rates of 4.5$\times$10\( ^{10} \), 2.1$\times$10\( ^\times \) and 5.6$\times$10\( ^{12} \) s\( ^{-1} \)mol\( ^{-1} \), respectively. A strong electron acceptor molecule, tetranitrofluorenone, presented quenching rate of 2.6$\times$10\( ^{11} \) s\( ^{-1} \)mol\( ^{-1} \). It …