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Red-emitting dyes with photophysical and photochemical properties controlled by pH
Novakova, Veronika,Miletin, Miroslav,Kopecky, Kamil,Zimcik, Petr
, p. 14273 - 14282 (2012/01/06)
New unsymmetrical zinc azaphthalocyanines, bearing one substituted aniline as a peripheral substituent, were prepared by using a statistical condensation approach. Both fluorescence and singlet oxygen quantum yields were extremely low in DMF (φFΔF=0. 22-0.29, φΔ=0.40-0.59, respectively). This behavior was attributed to the deactivation of excited states by intramolecular charge transfer from a donor site (aniline), which was blocked after protonation in acidic media. In the protonated form, all of the compounds efficiently emitted light with λem in the region of 662-675 nm. The investigated compounds were anchored to dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) unilamellar vesicles and showed response to buffer pH. They were highly fluorescent at low pH values and almost nonfluorescent in neutral solutions. The pKa values were determined in DOPC vesicles and ranged between 2.2 and 4.2.
