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8452292 
Journal Article 
On the temperature dependence of non-radiative deactivation processes 
Pantke, ER; Labhart, H 
1972 
Yes 
Chemical Physics Letters
ISSN: 0009-2614 
16 
255-259 
English 
It is shown that the fluorescence quantum yield depends on temperature rather than on the viscosity of the solvent. The intersystem crossing rate can be described as a sum of a temperature independent and a temperature dependent term. For most of the molecules investigated in this paper the latter can be assumed to have the Arrhenius form. With anthracene, however, significant deviations from the Arrhenius behaviour are observed. With a more general expression involving the density of states the temperature dependence of the fluorescence quantum yield can be satisfactorily described. © 1972.