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Ultrafast through-space electronic energy transfer in molecular dyads built around dynamic spacer units

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Date
10/05/2018
Author
Ziessel, Raymond
Stachelek, Patrycja
Harriman, Anthony
Hedley, Gordon J.
Roland, Thomas
Ruseckas, Arvydas
Samuel, Ifor D. W.
Keywords
Forster resonance
Orientation factor
Charge-transfer
Transfer rates
Biodipy dyes
FRET
Dependence
Solvent
Distance
State
QC Physics
QH301 Biology
NDAS
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Abstract
A pair of complementary molecular dyads have been synthesized around a 1,2-diaminocyclohexyl spacer that itself undergoes ring inversion. Despite these conformational exchange processes, the donor and acceptor occupy quite restricted spatial regions, and they are not interchangeable. The donor and acceptor pair comprise disparate boron dipyrromethene dyes selected to display favorable electronic energy transfer (EET). Steady-state emission spectroscopy confirms that through-space EET from donor to acceptor is almost quantitative, aided by the relatively short separations. Ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy has allowed determination of the rates of EET for both dyads. Surprisingly, in view of the close proximity of donor and acceptor (center-to-center separations less than 20 A), the EET dynamics are well-accounted for in terms of the computed molecular conformations and conventional Forster theory. One dyad appears as a single family of conformations, but EET for the second dyad corresponds to dual-exponential kinetics. In this latter case, an intramolecular hydrogen bond helps stabilize an open geometry, wherein EET is relatively slow.
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Ziessel , R , Stachelek , P , Harriman , A , Hedley , G J , Roland , T , Ruseckas , A & Samuel , I D W 2018 , ' Ultrafast through-space electronic energy transfer in molecular dyads built around dynamic spacer units ' , Journal of Physical Chemistry A , vol. 122 , no. 18 , pp. 4437-4447 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.8b02415
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Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.8b02415
ISSN
1089-5639
Type
Journal article
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© 2018, American Chemical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher's policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.8b02415
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Funding: University of Newcastle.
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URL
https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/248599
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17710

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