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Photophysics of a series of efficient fluorescent pH probes for dual-emission-wavelength measurements in aqueous solutions

This paper evaluates the 5-aryl-2-pyridyloxazole backbone to engineer donor-acceptor fluorescent pH probes after one- or two-photon absorption. Parent fluorophores, as well as derivatives that can be used to label biomolecules, can be easily obtained in good yields. These molecules exhibit a large one-photon absorption in the near-UV range, and a strong fluorescence emission that covers the whole visible domain. The 5-aryl-2-pyridyloxazole derivatives also possess significant cross sections for two-photon absorption. Upon pyridine protonation, large shifts were observed in the absorption spectra after one- and two-photon excitation, as well as in the emission spectra. This feature was used to measure the pKa of the investigated compounds that range between 2 and 8. In most of the investigated derivatives, the pKa increased upon light excitation and protonation exchanges took place during the lifetime of the excited state, as shown by phase-modulation fluorometry analysis. Several 5-aryl-2-pyridyloxazole derivatives are suggested as efficient probes to reliably measure the pH of aqueous solutions by means of ratiometric methods that are dependent on fluorescence emission.

An efficient fluorescent probe for ratiometric pH measurements in aqueous solutions

Just as litmus paper changes from red to blue with an increase in pH, so the fluorescence emission of the oxazole derivative 1 shifts from green to blue. Ratiometric measurements of the fluorescence emissions of the two species, after one- or two-photon e