This paper is dedicated to Professor Camille Sandorb on the occasion of his 65th birthdayWOLFCAND REPIC and ANDRE KLOCK. Can. J. Chem. 63, 1649 (1985) The fluorescence of 6-aminocoumarine (A6C) is very weak and anomalously redshifted as compared to its 7-substituted analogues 4-methyl-7-aminocoumarine (A7C) and 4-methyl-7-diethylaminocoumarine (DEA7C). The solvatochromic redshift in homologous alcohols is much stronger for A6C, pointing to an increased dipole moment of the emitting state. A twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) state with full charge separation is made responsible for this emission. This is rationalized by molecules-in-molecules calculations. The strong Stokes shift in n-hexane and in ethanol glass at 77 K suggests that A6C emits from a TICT state even under these conditions. WOLFCAND REPIC et ANDRE KLOCK. Can. J. Chem. 63, 1649 (1985). La fluorescence de l'amino-6 coumarine (A6C) est trks faible et elle glisse de faqon anormale vers le rouge si on fait une comparaison avec des composCs analogues substituCs en position-7 comme la methyl-4 amino-7 coumarine (A7C) et la mCthyl-4 diCthylamino-7 coumarine (DEA7C). Le glissement solvatochrome vers le rouge provoqut par les alcools homologues est plus prononct avec le A6C et ceci suggkre qu'il y a une augmentation du moment dipolaire de 1'Ctat qui Cmet. On attribue cette Cmission a un Ctat de transfert de charge intramolCculaire croist (TCIC) avec une sCparation complkte de charges.On rationalise ce fait en fonction des calculs sur des molCcules dans des moltcules. Le fort glissement de Stokes dans le n-hexane et dans 1'Cthanol a 77 K suggkre que, mCme dans ces conditions, le A6C Cmet partir de I'etat TCIC.[Traduit par le journal] Introduction Lippert and co-workers (1-5) observed several types of adiabatic and diabatic photoreactions in dilute solutions of 7-hydroxycoumarine and related compounds as revealed from multiple fluorescence spectra.Only those coumarine dyes which possess an electron donor substituent in the 7 position showed a rather high and tunable LASER efficiency, whereas donor substitution in the 6 position strongly reduces the fluorescence quantum yield. Even some 7-dialkylamino coumarines are prone to undergo fluorescence quenching in polar solvents. This has been traced back by Jones, Halpern et al. (6,7) to an adiabatic photoreaction towards a nonemissive state.From the substituent and solvent dependence, this state was shown to be connected with the donor and acceptor properties of amine and coumarine moieties, and was assigned as a Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer (TICT) state (8) with the dialkylamino group twisted perpendicularly to the plane of the coumarine skeleton. By making this twisting motion unavailable through ring closure to the "rigidized structure" of Coumarine 102 or 153, the fluorescence quenching is suppressed (7). For the same reason, "rigidized" rhodamines show an enhanced fluorescence quantum yield at room temperature as compared to the nonrigidized strctures (rhodamine B vs. rhodamine 10 1 (9...