Answer to Question #117307 in Physical Chemistry for Ayesha

Question

How the photochemistry of Aniline depends on wavelength?

Answer 1

Like the -saturated amines, anilines and their N-alkyl derivatives are good electron donors in both the ground and excited states and have been widely used in studies of the behavior of pho-toinduced electron transfer (PET). Although PET could occur between singlet anilines and ground-state acceptors as well as between singlet acceptors and ground-state anilines, most studies employed anilines as ground-state electron donors rather than excited-state donors. This might be associated with the weak long-wavelength absorption and relatively short singlet lifetimes of simple aniline molecules that restrict the choice of ground-state acceptors.