摘要:
A 1,8-diphenyinaphthalene-based diamidine (1) 'turn-on' fluorescent probe for the detection of dicarboxylic acids has been designed and synthesized. The fluorescence spectra of the diamidine 1 with carboxylic acids that showed two different fluorescence bands, which corresponded to the amidinium-carboxylate (lambda(em)=410-430 nm) and amidinium (lambda(em)=440-470 nm as a broad band, which consisted from two peaks) formation, were confirmed by DOSY NMR and TD-DFT calculations. The complexation of diamidine 1 with dicarboxylic acids, which have sufficient distances between the two carboxylic groups for binding to the diamidine 1 (dicarboxylic acids 3, 4, and alpha,omega-dicarboxylic acids 6 (C-6-C-20)), showed the formation of 1:1 complexes (i.e., amidinium-carboxylate formation). On the other hand, for the complexation with monocarboxylic acids and dicarboxylic acids having insufficient distances between the two carboxylic groups (benzoic acid 5, acetic acid 7, and alpha,omega-dicarboxylic acids 6 (C-3-C-5)), formation of the amidinium (1.2H(+)) was observed. Relatively similar binding constants (10(-5)) for the complexation of the diamidine 1 with dicarboxylic acids 6, which depend on their chain length (strain), were observed due to the flexibility of the 1,8-diphenylnaphthalene unit. Additionally, for the complexation of the diamidine 1 with dicarboxylic acids, higher fluorescence quantum yields (Phi(fl): up to 80%) were observed when compared to the binding of the diamidine 2 (Phi(fl): up to 35%). (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.