Photophysical study of 5-substituted benzofurazan compounds as fluorogenic probes
作者:Seiichi Uchiyama、Kazuyuki Takehira、Shigeru Kohtani、Tomofumi Santa、Ryoichi Nakagaki、Seiji Tobita、Kazuhiro Imai
DOI:10.1039/b202367a
日期:2002.9.6
Nine 5-substituted benzofurazans including the non-substituted benzofurazan were synthesized, and measurements of the fluorescence, photolysis, transient absorption, and time-resolved thermal lensing signal were performed in order to understand the relaxation processes of these compounds. The results indicated that the main relaxation process was a photoreaction from an excited singlet state and the rate of the primary bond cleavage in the excited state tended to increase in the compound in which the S2 ← S0 absorption band is located close to the S1 ← S0 absorption band. These results suggest that the reactive state might be the S2 state, and that the interaction between the S1 and S2 states promotes the photoreaction. The separation of the S1 state from the S2 state decreases the rate of photoreaction, resulting in an increase in the Φf values. The Φf values of the 5-substituted benzofurazans in cyclohexane and acetonitrile were compared with their ΔE(S1, S2)
(energy gap between the S1 and S2 states) values calculated by using a combination of AM1(EXCITED) and AM1-CAS/CI(CI = 6) for geometric optimization and calculation of the energy levels, respectively. The ΔE(S1, S2) values correlated well with the Φf values in each solvent, thus enabling us to predict the fluorescence properties of the 5-substituted benzofurazans based on their chemical structures.
合成了九种5-取代苯并呋喃噁唑,包括未取代的苯并呋喃噁唑,并进行了荧光、光解、瞬态吸收和时间分辨热透镜信号的测量,以了解这些化合物的弛豫过程。结果表明,主要的弛豫过程是从激发单态的光反应,在激发态中主要键断裂的速率趋向于在S2←S0吸收带与S1←S0吸收带相近的化合物中增加。这些结果表明,反应态可能是S2态,并且S1态与S2态之间的相互作用促进了光反应。S1态与S2态的分离降低了光反应的速率,导致Φf值的增加。将环己烷和乙腈中5-取代苯并呋喃噁唑的Φf值与通过AM1(激发态)和AM1-CAS/CI(CI=6)相结合进行几何优化和能量水平计算得到的ΔE(S1, S2)(S1态与S2态之间的能量差)值进行了比较。ΔE(S1, S2)值与每种溶剂中的Φf值之间具有良好的相关性,从而使我们能够根据5-取代苯并呋喃噁唑的化学结构预测其荧光性质。