International journal of chemical kinetics

Photophysics and kinetics of naphthopyran derivatives, part 2: Analysis of diarylnaphthopyran kinetics. Degeneracy of the kinetic solution

M Maafi, RG Brown

Index: Maafi; Brown International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 2005 , vol. 37, # 12 p. 717 - 727

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Abstract

Abstract The photocoloring and fading kinetics of the photochromic 3, 3-diphenyl-3H- naphtho [2, 1-b] pyran (NPY) have been analyzed using a kinetic treatment for three related species recently developed by us (Int J Chem Kinet 2005, 37 (3), 162). The concepts of identifiability and distinguishability are developed with respect to the elucidation of the NPY kinetics. We find that neither set of kinetic data on its own, nor the two data sets combined, ...