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Published on: October 12, 2018
Substituted position effect on twisted intramolecular charge transfer of 1- and 2-anthracene aromatic carboxamides as
Jeongsik Kim1, Tatsuya Morozumi, Hisafumi Hiraga
1Division of Environmental Materials Science, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan.
Abstract:
Bi-chromophoric compounds linked to linear polyether N,N'-[oxybis(3-oxapentamethyleneoxy-2-phenyl)]-bis(1-anthracenecarboxamide) (1(4)) and its analogues (1(5), 2(4) and 2(5)) were synthesized. Their photochemical properties and complexation actions were investigated in acetonitrile. These fluoroionophores have shown weak emissions in the absence of guest ions, resulting in a twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) quenching process (off state) of an anthracene aromatic amide moiety. After the formation of a complex with alkaline earth metal ions, a large enhancement of fluorescent intensities was obtained (on state). The efficiencies of controlling an off-on fluorescent signal using 1(4) and its analogues (1(5), 2(4) and 2(5)) were larger than that of the 9-positioned analogue. These results suggested that the TICT relaxation process was effectively able to control using 1(4) and its analogues (1(5), 2(4) and 2(5)) by complex formations.
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