Metal-enhanced Singlet Oxygen Generation: A Consequence of Plasmon Enhanced Triplet Yields

In this Rapid Communication, we report the first observation of Metal-Enhanced singlet oxygen generation (ME¹O₂). Rose Bengal in close proximity to Silver Island Films (SiFs) can generate more singlet oxygen, a three-fold increase observed, as compared to an identical glass control sample but containing no silver. The enhanced absorption of the photo-sensitizer, due to coupling to silver surface plasmons, facilitates enhanced singlet oxygen generation. The singlet oxygen yield can potentially be adjusted by modifying the choice of MEF (Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence) & MEP (Metal Enhance Phosphorescence) parameters, such as distance dependence for plasmon coupling and wavelength emission of the coupling fluorophore. This is a most helpful observation in understanding the interactions between plasmons and lumophores, and this approach may well be of significance for singlet oxygen based clinical therapy.     

一种黄色三苯甲烷类染料的合成及光谱性能研究

以碱性品红为原料合成了一种黄色的三苯甲烷类染料FB-A,用IR、1HNMR表征其结构。研究了溶剂和pH对其吸收光谱和荧光光谱的影响,在酸性条件下,有蓝色荧光。在中性及碱性条件,荧光猝灭而且吸光度明显降低;随着溶剂极性增加,吸光度和荧光相对强度都减小。     

Singlet Oxygen Quantum Yield Determination for a Fluorene-Based Two-Photon Photosensitizer

The quantum yield, Φ_Δ, of singlet oxygen generation under two-photon excitation has been determined for a fluorene derivative. A photochemical method was developed using 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran (DPBF), a chemical quencher of ¹O₂, and 2-(9,9-didecyl-7-nitrofluoren-2-yl)benzothiazole (1) as a two-photon photosensitizer (PS). The photochemical kinetics of the quencher was measured by two different fluorescence methods. Fluorene 1 exhibited relatively high singlet oxygen quantum yield, Φ_Δ ≈ 0.4 ± 0.1, and had a two-photon absorption cross-section of 28 ± 5 GM. Thus, 1 may have potential for use as a two-photon PS in the near-IR spectral region for biomedical applications.     

Triplet States of Cyanine Dye Dimers

Russian Physics Journal - The results of investigations of the properties of cyanine dye dimers in the triplet state are presented. The formation of dimers is demonstrated as two absorption bands...     

Laser Induced Lowest Triplet State Properties of Dibenzothiophene in Solution

Laser induced triplet state lifetimes are measured in the presence of air and for oxygen, air, argon saturated, and vacuum degassed solution of dibenzothiophene in solution at room temperature by triplet decay, including the prompt and p-type delayed fluorescence. The results are discussed and compared to those of molecules with the same symmetry.     

Feasibility Study on Quantitative Measurements of Singlet Oxygen Generation Using Singlet Oxygen Sensor Green

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility for quantitative measurement of singlet oxygen (¹O₂) generation by using a newly developed ¹O₂-specific fluorescence probe Singlet Oxygen Sensor Green reagent (SOSG). ¹O₂ generation from photoirradiation of a model photosensitizer Rose Bengal (RB), in initially air-statured phosphate buffered saline (PBS) was indirectly monitored with SOSG. In the presence of ¹O₂, SOSG can react with ¹O₂ to produce SOSG endoperoxides (SOSG-EP) that emit strong green fluorescence with the maximum at 531 nm. The green fluorescence of SOSG-EP is mainly dependent on the initial concentrations of RB and SOSG, and the photoirradiation time for ¹O₂ generation. Furthermore, kinetic analysis of the RB-sensitized photooxidation of SOSG is performed that, for the first time, allows quantitative measurement of ¹O₂ generation directly from the determination of reaction rate. In addition, the obtained ¹O₂ quantum yield of porphyrin-based photosensitizer hematoporphyrin monomethyl ether (HMME) in PBS by using SOSG is in good agreement with the value that independently determined by using direct measurement of ¹O₂ luminescence. The results of this study clearly demonstrate that the quantitative measurement of ¹O₂ generation using SOSG can be achieved by determining the reaction rate with an appropriate measurement protocol.     

非线形CS2 分子单重态和三重态的密度泛函理论

应用密度泛函理论 (DFT)的B3LYP和B3PW91两种方法 ,在 6 3 11+G 和aug cc pVTZ基组水平上 ,分别优化了CS2 可能存在的非线形单重态和三重态构型 ,在全局势能面上共发现 3个单重态 (电子态 1 A1 )和 5个三重态 (电子态分别为 3A2 、3B2 和 3B2 )的非线形CS2 异构体 ,正则振动频率分析证明所得到构型均是位能面上的极小 .计算所得CS2 异构体的相对能量顺序为 4t3B2 相似文献   

Synthesis and Characterization of New Fluorene-Based Singlet Oxygen Sensitizers

The synthesis, photophysical characterization, and determination of singlet oxygen quantum yields (Φ_Δ) for a class of fluorene derivatives with potential application in two-photon photodynamic therapy (PDT) is reported. It has been demonstrated that these compounds possess the ability to generate singlet oxygen (¹O₂) upon excitation. A photochemical method, using 1,3-diphenylisobenzofuran (DPBF) as ¹O₂ chemical quencher, was employed to determine the singlet oxygen quantum yields (Φ_Δ) of the fluorene-based photosensitizers in ethanol. Φ_Δ values ranged from 0.35 to 0.75. These derivatives may have potential application as two-photon photosensitizers when pumped via two-photon excitation in the near-IR spectral region.     

Triplet State Studies of Organic Chelating Agents II. Effects of Metal Ions on Triplet State Lifetimes

The triplet state lifetimes of several organic chelating agents are enhanced several-fold upon interaction with certain metal ions. This effect is discussed in terms of the possible changed electronic polarizability of the molecules, and also in terms of altered singlet-triplet energy separations between the chelated and metal free states.     

Luminescence Study of Singlet Oxygen Production by Meso-Tetraphenylporphine

The research in the field of the photodynamic therapy of cancer (PDT) is focused on a development of photosensitizers exhibiting high quantum yield of singlet oxygen production. Direct time-resolved spectroscopic observation of singlet oxygen phosphorescence can provide time constants of its population and depopulation as well as photosensitizer phosphorescence lifetime and relative quantum yields. In our contribution, a study of time and spectral resolved phosphorescence of singlet oxygen photosensitized by meso-tetraphenylporphine in acetone together with the photosensitizer phosphorescence is presented. Time constants of singlet oxygen population and depopulation were determined at wide range of photosensitizer concentrations. The time constant of singlet oxygen generation (0.28 ± 0.01) s is slightly shorter then the lifetime of photosensitizer's triplet state (0.32 ± 0.01) s. It is caused by lower ability of TPP aggregates to transfer excitation energy to oxygen. The lifetime of singlet oxygen (50 s) decreases with increasing photosensitizer concentration. Therefore, the photosensitizer acts also as a quencher of oxygen singlet state, similarly to the effects observed in [A. A. Krasnovsky, P. Cheng, R. E. Blankenship, T. A. Moore, and D. Gust (1993). Photochem. Photobiol. 57, 324–330; H. Küpper, R. Ddic, A. Svoboda, J. Hála, and P. M. H. Kroneck (2002). Biochim. Biophys. Acta Gen. Subj. 1572, 107–113]. Moreover, the increasing concentraion of the photosensitizer causes a slight hypsochromic shift of the singlet oxygen luminescence maximum.     

钯酞菁配合物的荧光光谱与单线态氧的生成速率

分别测定了四-α-(2,2,4-三甲基-3-戊氧基)酞菁钯(锌)和四-α-(2,4-二叔丁基苯氧基)酞菁钯(锌)配合物的紫外-可见电子吸收光谱,荧光发射光谱和单线态氧生成速率,结果表明虽然酞菁钯的中心金属离子为开壳层电子结构,但其生成单线态氧(1O₂)的能力与中心金属为闭壳层结构的相应取代酞菁锌相近,这可能是与其荧光发射很弱,系间串跃很强相关。     

Laser-Induced Fluorescence Molecular Beam Investigation of New Singlet and Triplet Electronic States of Yttrium Monohydride

The yttrium monohydride spectrum in the range 12 500-25 000 cm⁻¹ has been studied by various laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) techniques. YH (YD) molecules have been produced in a free jet molecular beam apparatus by a laser vaporizing yttrium metal in the presence of He doped with H₂ (D₂) or NH₃ (ND₃). Low-resolution (∼0.04 cm⁻¹) excitation spectra have been recorded in the entire studied range. Four green bands (19 300-19 900 cm⁻¹) of the YH isotopomer have been studied in more detail: (1) high-resolution (∼120 MHz, ∼0.004 cm⁻¹) excitation spectra have been recorded, (2) dispersed fluorescence spectra have been obtained, and (3) lifetimes of the selected rotational levels of the upper states have been measured. Our observations have confirmed that the ground state of yttrium monohydride has ¹Σ⁺ symmetry and have provided a link between the singlet and triplet manifolds. The upper states of the observed transitions have been tentatively assigned to five electronic states, d0⁺, f³Π, f′1, D¹Π, E0⁺, and Fl. The low-energy excited electronic state observed in the dispersed fluorescence experiment has been assigned as the a³Δ state.     

Probabilistic Controlled Teleportation of a Triplet W State

A scheme for probabilistic controlled teleportation of a triplet W state from the sender Alice to the distant receiver Bob is proposed. In this scheme, an m-qubit GHZ state serves as the control parameter. The m control qubits are shared by m（s1, s2… sm） spatially-separated supervisors. With the aid of local operations and individual measurements, including Bell-state measurement, Von Neumann measurement, and mutual classical communication, etc., Bob can faithfully reconstruct the original state by performing relevant unitary transformations. However, even if one participant does not cooperate during the process, the receiver Bob cannot fully recover the original state. This protocol can be extended to probabilistic controlled teleportation of an arbitrary N-qubit state and some other N-qubit entangled states.     

Singlet Oxygen Generating Properties of Different Sizes of Charged Graphene Quantum Dot Nanoconjugates with a Positively Charged Phthalocyanine

Various sizes of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) denoted as GQD₂, GQD₆ and GQD₁₀ (increasing in size) were non-covalently attached to 2,9,16,23-tetrakis[4-(N-methylpyridyloxy)]-phthalocyanine (ZnTPPcQ) to form GQDs-ZnTPPcQ nanoconjugates. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed that increasing sizes of GQDs decreases the atomic concentrations of oxygen, which leads to blue shift in spectra of the GQDs. Relative to Pcs alone (0.03), the presence of GQDs improved the singlet oxygen quantum yields with the following values: GQD₂-ZnTPPcQ (0.17), GQD₆-ZnTPPcQ (0.27) and GQD₁₀-ZnTPPcQ (0.11). GQD₂-ZnTPPcQ nanoconjugate system had the most ZnTPPcQ loading, but did not generate the most singlet oxygen species due to aggregation. This study shows that, the quantity of oxygen, size and quality of GQDs as well as amount of Pc loading are amongst the vital properties to consider when constructing GQD-nanoconjugate systems with optimal singlet oxygen quantum yields.     

亚磷酸三苯酯臭氧化合物分解产生单重态氧的研究

现在世界上功率最大的短波长化学激光、氧碘化学激光是以亚稳态的O2 (a1△)作为储能分子,通过近共振碰撞传能给碘原子,使碘原子激发而发射激光,因此,O2 (a1△)的发生是其主要关键技术.目前使用的方法是H2 O2 的碱溶(BHP)与Cl2 气反应[1] .它具有化学效率高的优点,但此方法产生的O2 (a1△)中含有水份,而水对碘原子具有强的猝灭作用;另外,BHP不能长期保存;氯气还有毒性.196 1年Thompson发现,在- 78℃时亚磷酸三苯酯(TPP)与O3加成为亚磷酸三苯酯臭氧化合物(TPPO3) [2 ] ,并在高于- 35℃分解产生O2 (a1△) .　(C6 H5O) 3P +O3-78℃(…     

射流式单重态氧发生器研究

单重态氧O2 (a1Δg)是迄今唯一能用纯化学反应高效产生的具有长寿命的亚稳激发态分子 .为了考察提出的用两个O2 (1Δ)能量汇集反应生成氧第二单重激发态O2 (b1Σ+ g)以实现近可见短波长化学激光方案的现实性 ,设计和实验了一个氯流量为 3～ 10mmol/s的射流式单重态氧发生器 (JSOG) .考察了三种具有不同孔径和孔数目的喷头、氯气流量和脱水冷阱温度等对JSOG出口的O2 (1Δ)浓度、O2 (1Δ)分压、氯利用率及水蒸气含量的影响 .发现用聚氯乙烯管作冷阱时 ,最佳冷阱介质温度为 - 140～ - 15 0℃ ,对此提出了O2 (1Δ)表面脱活与脱水互相竞争的解释 .在最佳条件下 ,可将O2 (1Δ)气中水分压降低至 4Pa ,这一结果是首次报导