Chromic properties of dibenzo[j,l]fluoranthenes exhibiting different resonance contributions
Kazuma Kurokawa1, Naoki Ogawa1, Yusuke Kuroda1
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. takasu.kiyosei.6r@kyoto-u.ac.jp.
Abstract:
Chromic molecules change colour in response to external stimuli and are utilized in applications such as food additive detection, light dimmers, and biological probes. One of the common design strategies for organic chromic molecules is based on changes in the π-conjugation. We have hypothesized that non-alternant polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) skeletons can be used as backbones for chromic molecules. Herein, we synthesized hydroxy-substituted dibenzo[j,l]fluoranthenes, a class of non-alternant PAHs, as novel chromic compounds and evaluated their halochromic properties by UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy. Under basic conditions, the 1-hydroxy derivatives show a hyperchromic shift, whereas the 9-hydroxy derivatives show a bathochromic shift and fluorescence although the skeleton of the chromophore is the same. Density functional theory calculations indicated that the different chromic properties are attributed to the differences in their resonance structures.
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