Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and photophysics of new functionalized 2,3-distyrylfurans: Substituent and solvent effects on their photobehavior
作者:Irena Škorić、Ilijana Kikaš、Margit Kovács、Marija Šindler-Kulyk、Ottó Horváth
DOI:10.1016/j.jphotochem.2010.02.013
日期:2010.4
Two new groups of p-chloro-, p-methoxy- and p-nitro-substituted derivatives of the trans,trans-isomers of 2.3-distyrylfuran have been synthesized by a sequence of reactions according to known methods. These new conjugated heterocyclic compounds along with the parent one and its methyl-derivative have been characterized spectrally, photophysically and photochemically. These compounds, except for the nitro-derivatives, display high fluorescence quantum yields in the non-polar n-hexane (Phi(F) = 0.76-0.98). In ethanol of high polarity, the lifetime of their singlet excited state increases from 1.31-2.59 ns to 2.01-4.77 ns, significantly enhancing the quantum yield of their photochemical reaction from 0.02-0.24 to 0.25-0.46, and diminishing their fluorescence efficiency (Phi(F) = 0.26-0.64). Deviating from the other compounds studied, the quantum yields for both the fluorescence and the photolysis of the nitro-derivatives are rather low (Phi(F) < 10(-4), Phi = 0.025-0.042 in ethanol), probably due to an efficient intersystem crossing leading to a non-reactive triplet state. Accordingly, their singlet-state lifetime is also relatively short (tau(F) < 0.3 ns). (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.