Fluorescence response of mono- and tetraazacrown derivatives of 4-aminophthalimide with and without some transition and post transition metal ions
作者:N. B. SankaranPresent address: Department、Prasun K. Mandal、Bhaswati Bhattacharya、Anunay Samanta
DOI:10.1039/b417926a
日期:——
The fluorescence response of two fluorophore–spacer–receptor systems, 1 and 2, wherein a 4-aminophthalimido moiety is linked to a monoaza- and a tetraazacrown macrocycle via a dimethylene spacer, has been explored in the absence and in the presence of various transition and post transition metal ions. Unlike the parent fluorophore, these systems are weakly fluorescent because of photoinduced electron transfer (PET) between the terminal moieties of the molecules. Of the two systems, PET is found to be more efficient in 2, which contains the tetraazacrown moiety as the receptor. Both systems display complex fluorescence decay behaviour with the average fluorescence lifetime much shorter than that of the parent fluorophore. The systems exhibit fluorescence enhancement in the presence of the metal ions, some of which are notorious quenchers of fluorescence. While the fluorescence output of 1 is rather similar with different metal ions, 2 exhibits high fluorescence enhancement with metal ions such as Zn2+, Cd2+, Pb2+, Hg2+ and Mn2+ while producing negligible enhancement with the remaining metal ions studied. This specific signaling behaviour of 2 has been rationalized taking into consideration somewhat unusual binding ability of the tetraazacrown receptor moiety.
两种荧光团-间隔物-受体系统 1 和 2(其中一个 4-氨基邻苯二甲酰亚胺分子通过二亚甲基间隔物连接到一个单氮冠和一个四氮冠大环)在没有和有各种过渡和后过渡金属离子的情况下的荧光响应已经得到了探讨。与母体荧光团不同的是,由于分子末端分子之间存在光诱导电子转移(PET),因此这些系统的荧光很弱。在这两种体系中,2 的 PET 效率更高,因为它含有作为受体的四氮冠分子。这两种体系都显示出复杂的荧光衰减行为,平均荧光寿命比母体荧光团短得多。在金属离子存在的情况下,这些系统的荧光会增强,而其中一些金属离子是臭名昭著的荧光淬灭剂。1 在不同金属离子作用下的荧光输出相当相似,而 2 在 Zn2+、Cd2+、Pb2+、Hg2+ 和 Mn2+ 等金属离子作用下的荧光增强很高,而在研究的其余金属离子作用下的荧光增强可以忽略不计。考虑到四氮唑冠受体分子不同寻常的结合能力,2 的这种特殊信号行为得到了合理解释。