Spectroscopic properties of polycyclic aromatic compounds Part 6. The nitromethane selective quenching rule visited in aqueous micellar zwitterionic surfactant solvent media

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-1997

Abstract

Applicability of the nitromethane selective quenching rule for discriminating between alternant versus nonalternant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is examined for 58 representative PAH solutes dissolved in micellar N-hexadecyl-N,N-dimethyl-3-ammonio-1-propanesulfonate and in micellar N-dodecyl-N,N-dimethyl-3-ammonio-1-propanesulfonate solvent media. Results of measurements show that zwitterionic surfactants can be considered, for the most part, as providing a polar solubilizing media as far as the nitromethane selective quenching rule is concerned. Nonalternant PAHs that contain electron donating methoxy- and hydroxy-functional groups (and methyl-groups to a much lesser extent) are noted exceptions.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Talanta

Volume

44

Issue

3

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