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

Keywords

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

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