An Experimental and Theoretical Test of Dielectric Friction Models Using Rotational Diffusion of 7-Diethylamino-2-H-1-Benzopyran-2-One in Non-associative Solvents.

The rotational re-orientations times of the 7-DHB dye molecule have been examined in non-associative solvents (DMSO and Octanenitrile) by varying the temperature, by employing the Steady-State Fluorescence Depolarisation and Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) techniques. Rotational re-orientations time values in DMSO are found larger by a factor of 1.136 than octanenitrile, which indicates that 7-DHB laser dye is experiencing higher friction in DMSO than octanenitrile. To determine mechanical friction Stokes Einstein's Debye theory (SED) -with a stick, slip boundary conditions parameters are used and found an interesting super slip trend. Point dipole models as Nee-Zwanzig (NZ) and van der Zwan-Hynes (ZH) fail to explain experimental dielectric friction observed trends. Alavi-Waldeck model successfully explains the observed dielectric friction trend in non-associative solvents.