The electrochemistry of a series of non-symmetric synthetic carotenoids, with different conjugated double bounds chain lengths (5 to 11) is reported. The values of the first oxidation potentials of the carotenoids were evaluated by digital simulation of the experimental cyclic voltammograms. There is a clear relationship between calculated (AM1) HOMO energies of neutral carotenoids with their conjugated chain length, indicating that the change of solvation energy of carotenoids is small throughout the series, and that the electron-donating ability of carotenoids increases with the length of the conjugated chain. Carotenoids had been previously used to design carotenoporphyrin (C–P) molecular dyads. Carotenoid oxidation potentials and the reduction potential of the porphyrin moiety were used in order to calculate the energy of intramolecular charge transfer state in C–P dyads. Correlation of porphyrin fluorescence quenching of these dyads with the energy of the charge transfer state is reported, showing that effective quenching is only possible for carotenoids with more than eight conjugated double bonds.
报道了一系列非对称合成类
胡萝卜素的电
化学特性,这些类
胡萝卜素具有不同的共轭双键链长度(从5到11)。通过对实验循环伏安图的数字模拟,评估了类
胡萝卜素的首次氧化电位。结果表明,中性类
胡萝卜素的计算(
AM1)HOMO能量与其共轭链长度之间存在明显关系,表明类
胡萝卜素的溶剂化能在整个系列中变化较小,并且类
胡萝卜素的给电子能力随共轭链的长度增加而增强。类
胡萝卜素以前被用于设计类
胡萝卜素-
卟啉(C–P)分子二聚体。类
胡萝卜素的氧化电位和
卟啉部分的还原电位被用来计算C–P二聚体中分子内电荷转移态的能量。报告了这些二聚体的
卟啉荧光淬灭与电荷转移态能量的相关性,结果表明,只有在具有超过八个共轭双键的类
胡萝卜素中,才能实现有效的淬灭。