Fluorescence quenching and preferential solvation of a coumarin derivative, namelywith aniline used as a quencher in solvent mixtures of acetonitrile (AN) and 1,4dioxane (DX) was carried out at steady state. Suppan's theory of dielectric enrichment was used to understand the nonideality and dielectric enrichment in AN-DX solvent mixtures. The effect of viscosity and dielectric constant variation at room temperature were analyzed. Quenching was characterized using Stern-Volmer plots with an upward curvature. It was found that 3OCE underwent combined static and dynamic quenching that was evident from the quenching rate parameters.
KEYWORDS3OCE, bimolecular quenching reactions and diffusion limited reaction, preferential solvation, Suppan's theory of dielectric enrichment