126739-49-9Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Conformational switching and exciton interactions in hemicyanine-based bichromophores
Zeena,Thomas
, p. 7859 - 7865 (2001)
Conformational changes in two hemicyanine-based bichromophores were demonstrated by varying the polarity as well as temperature of the medium. Dramatic changes in the ground and excited singlet state properties were observed upon folding of the bichromoph
A controlled supramolecular approach toward cation-specific chemosensors: Alkaline earth metal ion-driven exciton signaling in squaraine tethered podands
Arunkumar, Easwaran,Chithra, Parayali,Ajayaghosh, Ayyappanpillai
, p. 6590 - 6598 (2007/10/03)
Three different squaraine tethered bichromophoric podands 3a-c with one, two, and three oxygen atoms in the podand chain and an analogous monochromophore 4a were synthesized and characterized. Among these, the bichromophores 3a-c showed high selectivity toward alkaline earth metal cations, particularly to Mg2+ and Ca2+ ions, whereas they were optically silent toward alkali metal ions. From the absorption and emission changes as well as from the Job plots, it is established that Mg2+ ions form 1:1 folded complexes with 3a and 3b whereas Ca2+ ions prefer to form 1:2 sandwich dimers. However, 3c invariably forms weak 1:1 complexes with Mg2+, Ca2+, and Sr2+ ions. The signal output in all of these cases was achieved by the formation of a sharp blue-shifted absorption and strong quenching of the emission of 3a-c. The signal transduction is achieved by the exciton interaction of the face-to-face stacked squaraine chromophores of the cation complex, which is a novel approach of specific cation sensing. The observed cation-induced changes in the optical properties are analogous to those of the "H" aggregates of squaraine dyes. Interestingly, a monochromophore 4a despite its binding, as evident from 1H NMR studies, remained optically silent toward Mg2+ and Ca2+ ions. While the behavior of 4a toward Mg2+ ion is understood, its optical silence toward Ca2+ ion is rationalized to the preferential formation of a "Head-Tail-Tail-Head" arrangement in which exciton coupling is not possible. The present study is different from other known reports on chemosensors in the sense that cation-specific supramolecular host-guest complexation has been exploited for controlling chromophore interaction via cation-steered exciton coupling as the mode of signaling.
