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A series of DMABN‐related compounds with two‐band fluorescence was studied by steady‐state absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, time‐resolved absorption spectroscopy upon excitation with a 30‐fs laser pulse, and by TDDFT and xMCQDPT2 quantum chemical methods. The efficiency of the intramolecular electron transfer was found to depend on the excitation wavelength in MeCN. The reaction is described by a two‐state scheme (LE↔CT); the Stevens‐Ban method gives underestimated values for the reaction enthalpy ΔH (SB). The spectral luminescence and kinetic parameters, rate constants, and barriers for the forward (k1, Ea) and reverse (k−1, Ed) electron transfer were calculated. The Marcus plot for k1 versus the driving force (−ΔG) and the total reorganization energy (λ) were calculated for six compounds. It was shown that without a barrier, the 1/k1 value (267 fs) is close to the mean solvation time in MeCN (260 fs), ie, the reaction rate is completely determined by the solvent. The results of conformational analysis for all studied compounds are consistent with the twisted intramolecular charge transfer model of structural relaxation.

It was found that cations formed by the protonation of 2-amino-3-(2'-benzoxazolyl)-quinoline (ABO) and 2-amino-3-(2'-benzothiazolyl)-quinoline (ABT) at the nitrogen atom of the quinoline ring exhibit excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT). The two-band fluorescence of these cations is due to the emission from two species: the initial tautomer (short-wavelength band) and the ESIPT product (long-wavelength band). The relative intensity of the long-wavelength band depends on the basicity of the proton-accepting moiety and temperature. Quantum-chemical calculations demonstrated that ESIPT in cations involves overcoming a significant potential barrier, which increases with the decreasing basicity of the proton-accepting benzazole moiety. Using femtosecond absorption spectroscopy and nanosecond fluorescence spectroscopy, the effective ESIPT time in the studied cations was determined, which increased with decreasing temperature.

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The absorption and fluorescence spectra, fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes, and fluorescence rate constants (kf) of 2-amino-3-(2′-benzoxazolyl)quinoline (I), 2-amino-3-(2′-benzothiazolyl)quinoline (II), 2-amino-3-(2′-methoxybenzothiazolyl)-quinoline (III), 2-amino-3-(2′-benzothiazolyl)benzoquinoline (IV) at different temperatures have been measured. The shortwavelength shift of fluorescence spectra of compounds studied (23–49 nm in ethanol) as the temperature decreases (the solvent viscosity increases) points out that the excited-state relaxation process takes place. The rate of this process depends essentially on the solvent viscosity, but not the solvent polarity. The essential increasing of fluorescence rate constantkf(up to about 7 times) as the solvent viscosity increases proves the existence of excited-state structural relaxation consisting in the mutual internal rotation of molecular fragments of aminoquinolines studied, followed by the solvent orientational relaxation.

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