The β-carbolines present a complex problem involving multiple equilibria in the excited state in hydrogen-bonding solvents including water. Three excited state species exist: neutral, cation, and zwitterion. Here we examine the multiple equilibria and excited state kinetics of harmine, using time-resolved and steady state fluorescence techniques. From an analysis of the multiexponential decays, measured at the...
The photophysical behavior of the P-carbolines norharmane, hmane, and harmine has been studied in waterin- oil (w/o) microemulsions in AOT/cyclohexane. With pure solvents, solubility and partitioning studies indicate that these molecules dissolve preferentially in the organic phase but that their solubility in the aqueous phase increases upon decreasing pH as a consequence of protonation. However, in w/o microe...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/j100007a065
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