Polychlorinated pyridyldiphenylmethyl radicals having substituents meta to the position bearing the carbon‐centered radical (α‐carbon) are synthesized. All of them are stable in ambient conditions in solutions and fluorescent in cyclohexane. The fluorescence of the radicals with bromo, phenyl, 4‐chlorophenyl, or 2‐pyridyl substituents are enhanced in chloroform, while the emission of the radicals with 2‐thienyl or 2‐furyl substituents are quenched in chloroform. DFT and TD‐DFT calculations indicate that the first doublet excited states of the former are locally excited, while the first doublet excited states of the latter are charge transfer states from the π‐electron‐donating substituent to the accepting radical. The latter also show much higher photostability under 370‐nm light irradiation compared with the first reported photostable fluorescent radical, (3,5‐dichloro‐4‐pyridyl)bis(2,4,6‐trichlorophenyl)methyl radical (PyBTM), with pronounced bathochromic shifts of the fluorescence.

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Acoustic scene classification (ASC) and sound event detection (SED) are fundamental tasks in environmental sound analysis, and many methods based on deep learning have been proposed. Considering that information on acoustic scenes and sound events helps SED and ASC mutually, some researchers have proposed a joint analysis of acoustic scenes and sound events by multitask learning (MTL). However, conventional works have not investigated in detail how acoustic scenes and sound events mutually benefit SED and ASC. We, therefore, investigate the impact of information on acoustic scenes and sound events on the performance of SED and ASC by using domain adversarial training based on a gradient reversal layer (GRL) or model training with fake labels. Experimental results obtained using the TUT Acoustic Scenes 2016/2017 and TUT Sound Events 2016/2017 show that pieces of information on acoustic scenes and sound events are effectively used to detect sound events and classify acoustic scenes, respectively. Moreover, upon comparing GRL-and fake-label-based methods with single-task-based ASC and SED methods, single-task-based methods are found to achieve better performance. This result implies that even when using single-task-based ASC and SED methods, information on acoustic scenes may be implicitly utilized for SED and vice versa.