Chemically induced dynamic electron polarization (CIDEP) generated
through interaction of the excited triplet
state of 1-chloronaphthalene, benzophenone, benzil, and
Buckminsterfullerene (C60) with
2,2,6,6,-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxyl (TEMPO) radical was investigated by using
time-resolved ESR spectroscopy. We carefully
examined what factors affect the CIDEP intensities. By comparing
CIDEP intensities of TEMPO in the
1-chloronaphthalene, benzophenone, and benzil systems with that
obtained in the C60−TEMPO system, the
absolute magnitude of net emissive polarization was determined to be
−2.2, −6.9, and −8.0, respectively, in
the units of Boltzmann polarization. In the
1-chloronaphthalene−TEMPO system, the viscosity effect on
the
magnitude of net polarization was studied by changing the temperature
(226−275 K) in 2-propanol. The
emissive polarization was concluded to result from the state mixing
between quartet and doublet manifolds
in a radical−triplet pair induced by the zero-field splitting
interaction of the counter triplet molecule. The
magnitude of net polarization is much larger than the polarization
calculated with the reported theory that the
CIDEP is predominantly generated in the region where the exchange
interaction is smaller than the Zeeman
energy. Our experimental results are quantitatively explained by
the theory that the CIDEP is generated
predominantly in the regions where the quartet and doublet levels
cross. We propose a theoretical treatment
to calculate the magnitude of net polarization generated by the level
crossings in the radical−triplet pair
mechanism under highly viscous conditions and perform a numerical
analysis of the net RTPM polarization
with the stochastic-Liouville equation. The viscosity dependence
of the net polarization indicates that the
back transition from the doublet to quartet states sufficiently occurs
in the level-crossing region under highly
viscous conditions. The estimated large exchange interaction
suggests that the quenching of the excited
triplet molecules by TEMPO proceeds via the electron exchange
interaction.