A strap strategy for construction of an excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) system with dual fluorescence

Naoya Suzuki, Aiko Fukazawa, Kazuhiko Nagura, Shohei Saito, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Daisuke Yokogawa, Stephan Irle, Shigehiro Yamaguchi

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Abstract

An amine-embedded flexible alkyl strap has been incorporated into an emissive boryl-substituted dithienylpyrrole skeleton as a new entity of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) chromophores. The π-electron system shows a dual emission, which covers a wide range of the visible region depending on the solvent polarity. The incorporation of the aminoalkyl strap as well as the terminal boryl groups efficiently stabilize the zwitterionic excited-state species resulting from the ESIPT even in an aqueous medium.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8231-8235
Number of pages5
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume53
Issue number31
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 28 2014
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science24750015

    Keywords

    • ESIPT
    • boron
    • fluorescence
    • hydrogen bonds
    • π conjugation

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