ABSTRACT:The UV absorption spectra of two potent mutagens, 2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and NO 2 -IQ, dissolved in ethanol, were observed at room temperature. General appearance of the two spectra is somewhat different. The absorption spectra show five bands in the region above 200 nm. The peak positions of the five bands are similar in the two spectra. The observed bands in the two molecules were assigned using transition energies calculated with time-dependent density functional theory with triple-zeta polarized basis set with the statistical average of orbital potentials exchange-and-correlation functional. The emission spectra of the two molecules dissolved in ethanol were obtained at 77 K. Only fluorescence emission was observed in IQ. No phosphorescence emission of the molecule was observed. Both fluorescence and phosphorescence emissions were observed in NO 2 -IQ. These observations were interpreted with the aid of the calculated transition energy spectra. Some lowest vertical ionization energies of the two molecules were also calculated. The
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