A time-correlated single photon counting technique, coupled with a red sensitive photomultiplier tube, was used to determine the singlet-state lifetimes and energy transfer mechanisms of Chl a⋅H2O, (Chl a⋅H2O)2, and (Chl a⋅2H2O)n. The use of low concentrations and low incident light fluxes permitted measurements in a regime where nonlinear quenching effects are absent. The lifetimes exhibit a pronounced dependence on aggregate size. The results are examined in terms of exciton interactions in the excited singlet state of the Chl a aggregate. It is shown that in the absence of exciton annihilation effects, the rate of singlet-state decay via radiative coupling and intersystem crossing of a Chl a aggregate containing n equivalent monomeric units is equal to n times that of monomeric Chl a.
Communications to the Editor mass number 235 showed that the intensities of the peaks at m/e 235.384 and 235.357 ([nB1310B71H22]+ and [11B1510B51H2o]+, respectively) diminished much more rapidly than that at m/e 235.315 ([11B101OB11H16]+). This(5) L.
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