A quantitative study of solvent effects on photo-physical properties of some azo-salicylaldehyde Schiff Bases ligands, with various substituent and alkyl group, was carried out, at room temperature. The solvatochromic behavior of these substances and their solvent-solute interactions, both specific and non-specific, was analyzed using linear solvation energy relationship concept, suggested by Kamlet-Taft. The ground and excited state dipole moments of these substances and their molecular resonance structures were also evaluated via solvatochromic shift method.
Keywords: Charge transfer; Dipole moment; Multi-parameter polarity scale; Salicylaldehyde azo Schiff Base.
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