Singlet oxygen quantum yields QY1

1,4-Benzenediol (Hydroquinone)

Martire, D.O.; Braslavsky, S.E.; Garcia, N.A.
J. Photochem. Photobiol., A 61(1): 113-24 (1991)

Sensitizer: 1,4-Benzenediol (Hydroquinone)
Solvent: diox
Oxygen concentration: air

Quantum yield of formation = 0.21

Experimental method: pulsed laser photolysis
Data type: luminescence intensity at end-of-pulse or under steady-state conditions

Reference sensitizer = ZnTPP; rel. to phi_Delta(ref. sens.) = 0.73; lambda_exc = 308 nm. May be from quinone contaminents.