“…Spectroscopic as well as thermodynamic (Prestbo and McHale, 1984;Griggs et al, 1979;Chareyron and Clechet, 1971;Agarwal et al,1979;Quitzsch et al, 1967) and nuclear magnetic relaxation (Sayin and McKee, 2004) data support the formation of DMSO dimers at low concentrations. The DMSO dimer seems to predominate in the concentration range 0.02 _ 0.3 mol dm -3 , and the value of its formation constant is estimated as 0.9 dm 3 mol -1 (Figueroa et al, 1966). Thus, DMSO monomers exist predominantly in the concentration range below 8×10 -3 mol dm -3 , and the significant decrease of the quantum yield at low [DMSO] may be induced by the association of DMSO.…”