Photoswitchable Fluorescent Dyads Incorporating BODIPY and [1,3]Oxazine Components
摘要:
We designed and synthesized three compounds incorporating a BODIPY fluorophore and an oxazine photochrome within the same molecular skeleton and differing in the nature of the linker bridging the two functional components. The [1,3]oxazine ring of the photochrome opens in less than 6 ns upon laser excitation in two of the three fluorophore-photochrome dyads. This process generates a 3H-indolium cation with a quantum yield of 0.02-0.05. The photogenerated isomer has a lifetime of 1-3 mu s and reverts to the original species with first-order kinetics. Both photochromic systems tolerate hundreds of switching cycles with no sign of degradation. The visible excitation of the dyads is accompanied by the characteristic fluorescence of the BODIPY component. However, the cationic fragment of their photogenerated isomers can accept an electron or energy from the excited fluorophore. As a result, the photoinduced transformation of the photochromic component within each dyad results in the effective quenching of the BODIPY emission. Indeed, the fluorescence of these photoswitchable compounds can be modulated on a microsecond time scale with excellent fatigue resistance under optical control. Thus, our operating principles and choice of functional components can ultimately lead to the development of valuable photoswitchable fluorescent probes for the super-resolution imaging of biological samples.
Fast and Stable Photochromic Oxazines for Fluorescence Switching
作者:Erhan Deniz、Massimiliano Tomasulo、Janet Cusido、Salvatore Sortino、Françisco M. Raymo
DOI:10.1021/la201062h
日期:2011.10.4
dyad, however, has a slow switching speed and poor fatigue resistance. To improve both parameters, we developed a new family of photochromicswitches based on the photoinduced opening and thermal closing of an oxazine ring. These compounds switch back and forth between ring-closed and -open isomers on nanosecond–microsecond timescales and tolerate thousands of switching cycles with no sign of degradation
Detailed electrochromic properties including the microkineticswitchingbehaviour of 2-nitro- (P1) and 2,8-dinitro-5a-[2-(4-dimethylaminophenyl)ethylene]-6,6-dimethyl-5a,6-dihydro-12H-indolo[2,1-b][1,3]benzooxazine (P2) were investigated in both solution and indium tin oxide (ITO) devices with a dual-wavelength time-dependent spectra monitoring method for the first time. These two oxazinederivatives displayed
Bichromophoric dye derived from benzo[1,3]oxazine system
作者:Yaroslav Prostota、Jerome Berthet、Stephanie Delbaere、Paulo J. Coelho
DOI:10.1016/j.dyepig.2012.09.017
日期:2013.2
The reaction of 2-methylbenzo[1,3]oxazine with julolidine-9-carbaldehyde under acid catalysis afforded an highly coloured blue dye with an intense absorption at 591 nm. NMR and UV-Vis analysis showed that this compound has an opened oxazine structure with a polymethine-type chromophore, corresponding to a protonated thermally stable coloured form of photochromic benzo[1,3]oxazines that are known to be unstable at room temperature with lifetimes in the ns timescale. In basic medium this dye is converted into a stable opened zwitterionic form of photochromic benzo[1,3]oxazines with two absorption maxima at 410 and 587 nm assigned to conjugated 3H-indolium and 4-nitrophenolate chromophores respectively. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Dynamic Behavior of Molecular Switches in Crystal under Pressure and Its Reflection on Tactile Sensing
Molecular switches have attracted increasing interest in the past decades, due to their broad applications in data storage, optical gating, smart windows, and so on. However, up till now, most of the molecular switches are operated in solutions or polymer blends with the stimuli of light, heat, and electric fields. Herein, we demonstrate the first pressure-controllable molecular switch of a benzo[1,3]oxazine OX-1 in crystal. Distinct from the light-triggered tautomerization between two optical states, applying hydrostatic pressure on the OX-1 crystal results in large-scale and continuous states across the whole visible light range (from similar to 430 to similar to 700 nm), which has not been achieved with other stimuli. Based on detailed and systematic control experiments and theoretical calculation, the preliminary requirements and mechanism of pressure-dependent tautomerization are fully discussed. The contributions of molecular tautomerization to the large-scale optical modulation are also stressed. Finally, the importance of studying pressure-responsive materials on understanding tactile sensing is also discussed and a possible mechanotransduction mode is proposed.