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Yui Nagase1, Yoshiki Naka1, Tatsuo Nehira1,2
1Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan.
Abstract:
This study investigated the applicability of fluorescent chromophores for exciton-coupled circular dichroism (ECCD) exploiting fluorescence-detected circular dichroism (FDCD). FDCD had been previously reported useful in allowing the sensitive detection of ECCD in favorable conditions. However, fluorescence detection may prevent applications of the combined method especially when solutions are polarized in emission. Even without polarization of emission, FDCD deviates from circular dichroism (CD) in some cases when the fluorophore of interest interacts with nonfluorescent chromophore. Herein, it was confirmed that employing 6-methoxy-2-naphthoate always yielded interpretable exciton-coupled FDCD spectra even when coupling with nonfluorescent p-substituted benzoates. The 6-methoxy-2-naphthoate chromophore (6-MN) is prescribed in special cases when only a small amount of sample is available for determining the absolute stereochemistry by the CD exciton chirality method observed by FDCD.
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