Temperature and structure dependent absorption spectra of solvated electrons in different alcohols

Yan, Y.*; Katsumura, Yosuke*; Lin, M.; Muroya, Yusa*

The temperature and solvent structure effects on the absorption of solvated electron in some primary alcohols, diols and triols have been investigated. The absorption maximum () shifts to lower energy with increasing the temperature. But at a fixed temperature, the is higher for the solvents having more OH groups. For the primary alcohols having only one OH group, temperature coefficient (-d/dT) increases with increasing the chain length. For the same chain length, the temperature coefficient is smaller for the solvents having symmetric molecular structure.