Theories of Reversible Dissociation: A Comparative Study

Reversible dissociation after instantaneous excitation and the fluorescence quantum yields of excited molecules and the products of their dissociation are considered in the framework of integral kinetic equations. A number of different theories are brought to the same integral form, and the kernels of corresponding integral equations are specified. All of the theories are compared using as criteria the concentration dependence of either their kernels or the corresponding Stern−Volmer constants.