Modeling, Preparation, and Characterization of a Dipole Moment Switch Driven by <i>Z</i>/<i>E</i> Photoisomerization
作者:Alfonso Melloni、Riccardo Rossi Paccani、Donato Donati、Vinicio Zanirato、Adalgisa Sinicropi、Maria Laura Parisi、Elena Martin、Mikhail Ryazantsev、Wan Jian Ding、Luis Manuel Frutos、Riccardo Basosi、Stefania Fusi、Loredana Latterini、Nicolas Ferré、Massimo Olivucci
DOI:10.1021/ja906733q
日期:2010.7.14
We report the results of a multidisciplinary research effort where the methods of computational photochemistry and retrosynthetic analysis/synthesis have contributed to the preparation of a novel N-alkylated indanylidene-pyrroline Schiff base featuring an exocyclic double bond and a permanent zwitterionic head. We show that, due to its large dipole moment and efficient photoisomerization, such a system may constitute the prototype of a novel generation of electrostatic switches achieving a reversible light-induced dipole moment change on the order of 30 D. The modeling of a peptide fragment incorporating the zwitterionic head into a conformationally rigid side chain shows that the switch can effectively modulate the fluorescence of a tryptophan probe.