Imaging Science and Photochemistry ›› 1997, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (4): 343-350.DOI: 10.7517/j.issn.1674-0475.1997.04.343

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THE INFLUENCE OF MOLECULAR CHAIN STRUCTUREON STABILITY AGAINST PHOTOOXIDATION OFNEAR-INFRARED ABSORBING CYANINE DYES

LI Jun1, CHEN Ping1, ZHAO Jiang1, ZHENG Deshui1, TSUNEKI Okazaki2, MASAAKI Hayami2   

  1. 1. Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P.R. China;
    2. Nippon Kankho-Shikiso Kenkyusho, Okayama 701, Japan
  • Received:1997-01-24 Revised:1997-06-05 Online:1997-11-20 Published:1997-11-20

Abstract: The spectroscopic properties and photostability of six near-infrared absorbing cyanine dyes with indolenine and quinoline heterocyclic stem nuclei structure have been studied. The experimental results showed that photofading of cyanine dyes was mainly caused by photooxidation, and their photostability increased significantly when the cyclic unity was introduced into the polymethine chain, and their photostability decreased when the length of polymethine chain was increased.The formation of singlet oxygen and superoxide radical photosensitized was detected by spin-trapping experiment.

Key words: cyanine dyes, photooxidation, singlet oxygen, superoxide anion