芳醚树枝形聚合物体系的设计合成及电子转移和三重态能量传递研究

<正>树枝形聚合物是一类具有特殊结构的大分子,通过可控合成,具有光捕获功能的官能团可以精确地分布在树枝形聚合物的核心或外围,甚至可以在支化单元的任何位置,随着代数的增加,官能团数目从核心向外围呈指数增长,树枝形聚合物的这种特殊结构被用来模拟光合作用中的光捕获体系.电子转移和能量传递是光合作用的关键过程,也是光化学研究的重要内容,因此,研究树枝形聚合物体系内的电子转移和能量传递是人工模拟光合作用的一个突破口,是目前相关研究工作的热点之一.本文设计合成了一系列一代到四代的芳醚树枝形聚合物,共24个新化合物,通过稳态、瞬态以及光化学反应的方法研究了芳醚树枝形聚合物体系内电子转移和三重态能量传递过程,得到了一系列有意义的研究结果:     

芳醚树枝形聚合物体系中电子转移和能量传递研究

树枝形聚合物英文名为dendrimer,是具有类似树枝状结构的化合物,由核心、内层支化单元和外围基团三部分组成.树枝形聚合物具有与光合作用体系相似的结构,作为模拟光合作用体系被广泛研究.电子转移是光合作用中的重要过程,研究树枝形聚合物体系中的电子转移与能量传递具有重要的意义.本论文设计合成了一系列芳醚树枝形聚合物,用光物理和光化学方法研究了芳醚树枝形聚合物体系中电子转移和能量传递过程,得到了一系列有意义的结果.     

聚集诱导发光基团修饰的功能化树枝形聚合物及其光物理性质研究

构筑和发展新型光功能树枝形聚合物是当前研究热点之一. 聚集诱导发光(Aggregation Induced Emission. AIE)类化合物以其高固态发光量子产率和广阔的应用前景引起研究者的极大关注, 分子内旋转受限降低了非辐射失活被认为是AIE高固态发光量子产率的主要原因. 在树枝形聚合物的外围修饰聚集诱导发光基团, 改善树枝形聚合物的发光性能, 通过外界环境改变树枝形聚合物分子构象, 实现对功能化树枝形聚合物体系发光的调控, 对扩展光功能树枝形聚合物在发光材料以及光捕获体系中的应用有重要意义.     

芳醚双枝树枝形聚合物体系的设计合成及三重态能量传递和电子转移的研究

树枝形聚合物的结构特点和良好的可修饰性使其在模拟光捕获体系研究中受到广泛重视,本论文设计合成了两个系列的双枝芳醚树枝形聚合物,通过光物理以及光化学方法研究了芳醚树枝形聚合物体系三重态能量传递和三重态电子转移过程:1.设计合成了两个系列的芳醚树枝形聚合物体系.合成了1代到3代外围以二苯酮基团修饰、核心以降冰片二烯基团修饰的双枝芳醚树枝形聚合物([BP-Gn]₂-NBD,n=1-3)及相应的异构化产物([BP-Gn]₂-QC,n=1-3);合成了外围和核心分别修饰二苯酮和萘的双枝芳醚树枝形聚合物([BP-Gn]₂-NA,n=1-4),及相应的给体模型化合物([BP-Gn]₂-BEN,n=1-4),及相应的给体模型化合物([BP-Gn]-2BEN,n=1)4),共16个新化合物.     

基于葫芦[7]脲主体的功能超分子体系的构筑及应用研究

<正>超分子化学是研究两个或两个以上分子通过非共价作用形成复杂有序体系的科学.主客体化学是超分子化学的重要研究内容之一,构筑具有环境响应性质的新型主客体功能化体系是主客体及超分子化学研究中的重要内容,具有广泛的应用前景。本论文合成了一系列外围修饰不同客体分子的功能树枝形聚合物体系,研究了葫芦[7]脲(CB[7])主体分子和树枝形聚合物外围客体分子的组装行为,探讨了主客体作用在药物可控释放和提高光捕获体系性能中的应用;构筑了一系列聚集诱导发光基团修饰的两亲分     

外围萘修饰PAMAM树枝形聚合物的合成及其质子化过程研究

合成了外围修饰有萘基团的0～3代聚酰胺-胺树枝形聚合物GnN (n＝0～3), 化合物通过了IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR和MALDI TOF的表征. 稳态光物理研究表明, 甲醇溶液中GnN外围萘基团与骨架胺之间发生电子转移过程, 形成最大发射峰在450 nm的激基复合物, 萘的荧光被明显猝灭; 当GnN骨架被质子化, 分子内光致电子转移过程和萘与骨架胺基间激基复合物的形成被抑制, 萘单体荧光发射大大增强; 由于质子化后树枝形聚合物骨架趋于伸展构象, 外围萘基团间相互作用增强, 部分形成最大发射峰在400 nm的激基缔合物.     

双枝芳醚树枝形聚合物构象研究

合成了外围只以一个芘基团修饰、核心为苯胺的双枝芳醚树枝形聚合物Py-[Gn]2-NPh (n＝1～2), 利用分子内电子转移和激基复合物的形成对其折叠构象和折叠程度进行了研究. 二氯甲烷溶液中选择性激发芘基团, 树枝形聚合物Py-[Gn]2-NPh分子内发生从苯胺到芘基团之间的电子转移, 观察到了分子内外围芘基团和核心苯胺基团之间形成激基复合物的发光, 为芳醚树枝形聚合物折叠构象的存在给出了直接实验观察. 二氯甲烷溶液中1～2代Py-[Gn]2-NPh分子内电子转移效率分别为0.87和0.81, 速率常数分别为2.3×108和1.5×108 s－1. 利用电子转移速率常数估算得到1～2代Py-[Gn]2-NPh分子内给、受体之间的距离分别为0.79和0.81 nm, 说明双枝芳醚树枝形聚合物与单枝结构类似, 其外围基团也可以折叠到达分子内部接近核心的位置.     

树枝形聚合物修饰双8-羟基喹啉衍生物的合成及稳态光物理性质研究

设计合成了1 3代芳醚骨架树枝形聚合物修饰的双8 羟基喹啉衍生物.对这些化合物在不同溶剂中的荧光光谱研究表明,随着代数的增加,目标树枝形聚合物的荧光量子产率增大,树枝形聚合物对核心发色团具有一定的隔离作用,并且目标分子内可以发生从骨架向核心发色团的能量传递.     

荧光猝灭研究芳醚树枝形聚合物构象

本工作分别合成了外围修饰一个芘基团和核心修饰一个芘基团两个系列的芳醚树枝形聚合物Py-Gn-OH和Gn-CH₂-Py(n=1~4)。Py-Gn-OH和Gn-CH₂-Py的发光随代数增加而增强,荧光寿命增加。荧光猝灭实验结果表明,树枝形聚合物Py-Gn-OH和Gn-CH₂-Py的双分子猝灭速率常数均随代数增加而减小,表明树枝形聚合物发生了构象折叠,位于核心和外围的芘基团均被树枝形聚合物骨架包裹,随代数增加树枝形聚合物骨架增大,对芘基团包裹作用增强,导致猝灭剂接近芘基团的位阻增大。Gn-CH₂-Py体系的双分子猝灭速率常数均比相应代数Py-Gn-OH体系略小,说明树枝形聚合物骨架对连接在核心的芘基团的包裹程度比对连接在外围的芘基团略强。本工作为新型功能芳醚树枝形聚合物设计和应用提供了参考。     

两亲性树枝形聚合物微反应器在光化学反应中应用研究

树枝形聚合物是一种结构独特的大分子,其内部存在的空腔可以容纳底物分子,近年来作为一类新型的微反应器引起广泛重视.在这些研究中,具有亲水外围基团和疏水内层骨架的两亲性树枝形聚合物因其溶解于水可以提供类似胶束的限制性微环境而备受关注,这种树枝形聚合物也被称为"静态单分子胶束".疏水小分子包裹在这类树枝形聚合物内部空腔溶解在水溶液中,由于树枝形聚合物内部微环境的影响,这些有机小分子表现出与其在均相水溶液或其它介质中不同的光物理和光化学性质.     

Dendrimers-merging biomimics and photoenergy conversion

Dendrimers are well-defined tree-like macromolecules possessing numerous chain ends emanating from a single core, which makes them attractive candidates for mimicking light-harvesting systems and hydrogenases. Photoinduced electron and energy transfers are main processes involved in light-harvesting and photocatalysis. In this review, the general concepts of design strategies and recent developments of photofunctional dendrimers in biomimics of light-harvesting systems and hydrogenases are discussed. The energy transfer and electron transfer processes in light-harvesting dendrimers and the effect of dendritic structures in photochemical hydrogen production are illustrated.     

Dendrimers made of Ru(II) and Os(II) polypyridine subunits as artificial light-harvesting antennae

Dendrimers based on Ru(II) and Os(II) polypyridine complexes as building blocks and 2,3–dpp (2,3–dpp = 2,3–bis(2′–pyridyl)pyrazine) as bridging ligands are presented and their properties as light-harvesting antenna systems are illustrated. The dendrimers exhibit a huge absorption in the visible region and energy migration patterns whose direction and efficiency depend on the synthetically determined topography of the systems. New recent developments are also discussed, with particular regard towards ultrafast energy transfer processes and long-range electron transfer within the dendritic arrays. To cite this article: S. Serroni et al., C. R. Chimie 6 (2003).     

60]Fullerene: a versatile photoactive core for dendrimer chemistry

Owing to their special photophysical properties, fullerene derivatives are good candidates to demonstrate dendritic effects. In particular, the triplet lifetimes of a C(60) core can be used to evaluate its degree of isolation from external contacts. On the other hand, the fullerene core can act as a terminal energy receptor in dendrimer-based light-harvesting systems. When a fullerodendrimer is further functionalized with a suitable electron donor, it may exhibit the essential features of a multicomponent artificial photosynthetic system in which photoinduced energy transfer from the antenna to the C(60) core is followed by electron transfer.     

Light-harvesting in carbonyl-terminated phenylacetylene dendrimers: The role of delocalized excited States and the scaling of light-harvesting efficiency with dendrimer size

The photophysics of a family of conjugated phenylacetylene (PA) light-harvesting dendrimers are studied using steady-state and time-resolved optical spectroscopy. The dendrimers consist of a substituted PA core surrounded by meta-branched PA arms. The total number of PA moieties ranges from 3 (first generation) to 63 (fifth generation). By using an alcohol/ketone substituent at the dendrimer core, we avoid through-space Forster transfer from the peripheral PA donors to the core acceptor (in this case, the carbonyl group), which simplifies the analysis of these molecules relative to the perylene-terminated molecules studied previously. The delocalized excited states previously identified in smaller dendrons are seen in these larger dendrimers as well, and their influence on the intersite electronic energy transfer (EET) is analyzed in terms of a point-dipole Forster model. We find that these new delocalized states can both enhance EET (by decreasing the spatial separation between donor and acceptor) and degrade it (by lowering the emission cross section and shifting the energy, resulting in poorer spectral overlap between donor and acceptor). The combination of these two effects leads to a calculated intersite transfer time of 6 ps, in reasonable agreement with the 5-17 ps range obtained from experiment. In addition to characterizing the electronic states and intersite energy transfer times, we also examine how the overall light-harvesting efficiency scales with dendrimer size. After taking the size dependence of other nonradiative processes, such as excimer formation, into account, the overall dendrimer quenching rate k(Q) is found to decrease exponentially with dendrimer size over the first four generations. This exponential decrease is predicted by simple theoretical considerations and by kinetic models, but the dependence on generation is steeper than expected based on those models, probably due to increased disorder in the larger dendrimers. We discuss the implications of these results for dendrimeric light-harvesting structures based on PA and other chemical motifs.     

Energy and charge transfer dynamics in fully decorated benzyl ether dendrimers and their disubstituted analogues

We examine the photophysics of a series of molecules consisting of a benzthiadiazole core surrounded by a network of benzyl ether arms terminated by aminopyrene chromophores, which function as both energy and electron donors. Three classes of molecules are studied: dendrimers whose peripheries are fully decorated with aminopyrene donors (F), disubstituted dendrimers whose peripheries contain only two donors (D), and linear analogues in which a pair of benzyl ether arms link two donors to the central core (L). The electronic energy transfer (EET) and charge transfer (CT) rates are determined by fluorescence lifetime measurements on the energy donors and electron acceptors, respectively. In all three types of molecules, the EET time scales as the square root of the generation number G, consistent with the flexible nature of the benzyl ether framework. Transient anisotropy measurements confirm that donor-donor energy hopping does not play a major role in determining the EET times. The CT dynamics occur on the nanosecond time scale and lead to stretched exponential decays, probably due to conformational disorder. Measurements at 100 degrees C confirm that conformational fluctuations play a role in the CT dynamics. The average CT time increases with G in the L and D molecules but decreases for the F dendrimers. This divergent behavior as G increases is attributed to the competing effects of larger donor-acceptor distances (which lengthen the CT time) versus a larger number of donors (which shorten the average CT time). This work illustrates two important points about light-harvesting and charge-separation dendrimers. First, the use of a flexible dendrimer framework can lead to a more favorable scaling of the EET time (and thus the light-harvesting efficiency) with dendrimer size, relative to what would be expected for a fully extended dendrimer. Second, fully decorated dendrimers can compensate for the distance-dependent slowdown in CT rate as G increases by providing additional pathways for the CT reaction to occur.     

Artificial,molecular-based light-harvesting antenna systems made of metal dendrimers and multibodipy species

Artificial photosynthesis is expected to include the development of light-harvesting antenna systems, similarly to what Natural Photosynthesis does. Here some basic requirements for designing synthetic light-harvesting antennae are presented, together with the results obtained by our team in the last few decades on light-harvesting antennae based on metal dendrimers or made of multibodipy species.     

Polarity effects on the photophysics of dendrimers with an oligophenylenevinylene core and peripheral fullerene units

Highly soluble dendritic branches with fullerene subunits at the periphery and a carboxylic acid function at the focal point have been prepared by a convergent approach. They have been attached to an oligophenylenevinylene (OPV) core bearing two alcohol functions to yield dendrimers with two, four or eight peripheral C60 groups. Their photophysical properties have been systematically investigated in solvents of increasing polarity; that is, toluene, dichloromethane, and benzonitrile. Ultrafast OPV-->C60 singlet energy transfer takes place for the whole series of dendrimers, whatever the solvent. Electron transfer from the fullerene singlet is thermodynamically allowed in CH2Cl2 and benzonitrile, but not in apolar toluene. For a given solvent, the extent of electron transfer, signaled by the quenching of the fullerene fluorescence, is not the same along the series, despite the fact that identical electron transfer partners are present. By increasing the dendrimer size, electron transfer is progressively more difficult due to isolation of the central OPV core by the dendritic branches, which hampers solvent induced stabilization of charge separated couples. Compact structures of the hydrophobic dendrimers are favored in solvents of higher polarity. These structural effects are also able to rationalize the unexpected trends in singlet oxygen sensitization yields.     

Energy and electron transfer in bifunctional non-conjugated dendrimers

Nonconjugated dendrimers, which are capable of funneling energy from the periphery to the core followed by a charge-transfer process from the core to the periphery, have been synthesized. The energy and electron donors involve a diarylaminopyrene unit and are incorporated at the periphery of these dendrimers. The energy and electron acceptor is at the core of the dendrimer, which involves a chromophore based on a benzthiadiazole moiety. The backbone of the dendrimers is benzyl ether based. A direct electron-transfer quenching of the excited state of the periphery or a sequential energy transfer-electron-transfer pathway are the two limiting mechanisms of the observed photophysical properties. We find that the latter mechanism is prevalent in these dendrimers. The energy transfer occurs on a picosecond time scale, while the charge-transfer process occurs on a nanosecond time scale. The lifetime of the charge separated species was found to be in the range of microseconds. Energy transfer efficiencies ranging from 80% to 90% were determined using both steady-state and time-resolved measurements, while charge-transfer efficiencies ranging from 70% to 80% were deduced from fluorescence quenching of the core chromophore. The dependence of the energy and charge-transfer processes on dendrimer generation is analyzed in terms of the backfolding of the flexible benzyl ether backbone, which leads to a weaker dependence of the energy and charge-transfer efficiencies on dendrimer size than would be expected for a rigid system.     

Conversion of intramolecular singlet electron transfer at room temperature into triplet energy transfer at 77 K: photoisomerization in norbornadiene- and carbazole-labeled poly(aryl ether) dendrimers

A series of Fréchet-type poly(aryl ether) dendrimers (CZ-Gn-NBD, n = 1-3) with carbazole (CZ) chromophores and a norbornadiene (NBD) group attached to the periphery and the core, respectively, were synthesized, and their photophysical and photochemical properties were investigated. Selective excitation of the carbazole units in CZ-Gn-NBD resulted in a singlet electron transfer from CZ to NBD at room temperature, and an intersystem crossing followed a triplet-triplet energy transfer from CZ to NBD in glassy 2-methyltetrahydrofuran at 77 K. Both singlet electron transfer and triplet energy transfer processes lead to the isomerization of the norbornadiene group into the quadricyclane (CZ-Gn-QC). The efficiencies and the rate constants for singlet electron transfer are approximately 88, 80, and 74% and 1.8 x 10(9), 6.1 x 10(8), and 4.0 x 10(8) s(-1) for generations 1-3, respectively. The quantum yields of the intramolecular photosensitized isomerization are measured to be approximately 0.013, 0.012, and 0.011, and the efficiencies of triplet norbornadiene formation via singlet electron transfer are approximately 0.070, 0.065, and 0.059 for generations 1-3, respectively. The light-harvesting ability of CZ-Gn-NBD increases with the generation due to an increase of the number of peripheral chromophores. In glassy 2-methyltetrahydrofuran at 77 K, the triplet-triplet energy transfer proceeds with efficiencies of approximately 0.86, 0.64, and 0.36 and rate constants of 0.96, 0.25, and 0.08 s(-1) for generations 1-3, respectively. The intramolecular singlet electron transfer and triplet energy transfer in CZ-Gn-NBD proceed mainly via a through-space mechanism involving the proximate donor (folding back conformation) and acceptor groups.     

Energy transfer followed by electron transfer(ETET) endows a TPE-NBD dyad with enhanced environmental sensitivity

Energy transfer and electron transfer are both fundamental mechanisms enabling numerous functional materials and applications. While most materials systems employ either energy transfer or electron transfer, the combined effect of energy and electron transfer processes in a single donor/acceptor system remains largely unexplored. Herein, we demonstrated the energy transfer followed by electron transfer(ETET) process in a molecular dyad TPE-NBD. Due to energy transfer, the fluorescence of TPE-NBD was greatly enhanced in non-polar solvents. In contrast, polar solvents activated subsequent electron transfer and markedly quenched the emission of TPE-NBD. Consequently, ETET endows TPE-NBD with significant polarity sensitivities. We expect that employing ETET could generate many functional materials with unprecedented properties, i.e., for single laser powered multicolor fluorescence imaging and sensing.