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Patra SK, Mahato MK, Prasad E. Aggregation induced emission and volatile acid vapour sensing in acridine appended poly (aryl ether) based low molecular weight organogelator. Org Biomol Chem 2024; 22:2596-2607. [PMID: 38450570 DOI: 10.1039/d3ob01945d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Considerable research attention has been devoted to the development of portable and rapid fluorescence sensors that can selectively detect volatile acids, due to the harmful effects of acid vapour on the environment and human health. Although various types of fluorophores have been reported for sensing volatile acid vapours, regulation of the sensory response using aggregation induced emissive (AIE) based gelators has rarely been reported. In this study, we present the design and synthesis of a novel organogelator that is capable of sensing volatile acids through AIE. An acridine-attached poly(aryl ether) dendron molecular system is synthesized through an aldimine coupling reaction, which self-assembles and forms a gel, exhibiting AIE behavior. The synthesized molecule and prepared gel were characterized using NMR, MASS, XRD, HRSEM and rheology techniques. The AIE property of APD was investigated using steady-state absorption and emission spectroscopic techniques. The sensory response of the APD gelator was tested with various analytes, and the results indicated that APD shows rapid response, particularly to acid vapours, where the detection limits (DL) of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), hydrochloric acid (HCl) and nitric acid (HNO3) vapor were as low as 0.22, 0.9 and 0.30 ppm, respectively. An APD solid film in filter paper shows a visual color change from yellow to red in an aqueous acidic medium, and the effect is reversed in an alkaline medium. These findings suggest that an APD gelator could potentially be utilized to generate a portable acid vapor sensor kit due to its low detection limit and rapid response time, and it could be also be used as a substitute for existing acid indicators.
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- Srikanta Kumar Patra
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai 600036, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai 600036, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai 600036, India.
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Huang J, Wang L, Tang XY. Oxidative cross-coupling of quinoxalinones with indoles enabled by acidochromism. Org Biomol Chem 2023; 21:2709-2714. [PMID: 36928912 DOI: 10.1039/d3ob00280b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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An oxidative cross-coupling of quinoxalinones with indole derivatives via B(C6F5)3·H2O induced acidochromism of quinoxalinone derivatives was developed under mild and external photocatalyst-free conditions. The reaction shows excellent substrate scope, accommodating a wide range of functional groups. The usefulness of this strategy was demonstrated by the synthesis of the natural products Azacephalandole A and Cephalandole A in high yields. Moreover, the products are fluorophores showing prevalent fluorescence properties with a wide emission range and good relative quantum yields.
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- Jie Huang
- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and Medical Protective Materials, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry & Materia Medica, Semiconductor Chemistry Center, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and Medical Protective Materials, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry & Materia Medica, Semiconductor Chemistry Center, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials and Medical Protective Materials, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry & Materia Medica, Semiconductor Chemistry Center, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China.
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Mu Y, Fan H, Li M, Wang R, Chen Z, Fan C, Liu G, Pu S. Multiresponsive tetrarylethylene-based fluorescent dye with multicoloreded changes: AIEE properties, acidichromism, Al 3+ recognition, and applications. J Mater Chem B 2022; 10:9235-9248. [PMID: 36317656 DOI: 10.1039/d2tb01828d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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A novel fluorescent sensor BTAE-PA containing two tetrarylethylene (TAE) units linked through pyrimidine-2-amine was prepared, and its optical properties were systematically studied. BTAE-PA exhibited a typical aggregation-induced emission enhancement behavior, and its fluorescent properties could be efficiently modulated by acid/base and metal ions in THF. The protonated effect could induce significant acidichromism and 'turn-on' near-infrared emission with a large Stokes shift (Δλ = 225 nm). Furthermore, BTAE-PA was highly selective toward Al3+ with significant absorption (yellow → orange) and fluorescence (green → red) changes. A Job's plot established the 1 : 1 stoichiometry of the complex formation between BTAE-PA and Al3+, and the limit of detection for Al3+ was determined to be 1.30 × 10-7 mol L-1. Finally, we also demonstrated that BTAE-PA could be made into test paper strips for 'naked-eye' detection of acid/Al3+, and fluorescence imaging experiments proved that BTAE-PA is capable of achieving cell imaging with good biocompatibility. Therefore, the multi-stimuli-responsive and multicoloured display performance of BTAE-PA endows the material with potential applications in security ink, acid/Al3+ sensing, and bio-imaging.
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- Yanqun Mu
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China.
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China.
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China.
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China.
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China.
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China.
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China.
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China. .,Department of Ecology and Environment, Yuzhang Normal University, Nanchang 330103, P. R. China
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Impresari E, Bossi A, Lumina EM, Ortenzi MA, Kothuis JM, Cappelletti G, Maggioni D, Christodoulou MS, Bucci R, Pellegrino S. Fatty Acids/Tetraphenylethylene Conjugates: Hybrid AIEgens for the Preparation of Peptide-Based Supramolecular Gels. Front Chem 2022; 10:927563. [PMID: 36003614 PMCID: PMC9393247 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.927563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aggregation-induced emissive materials are gaining particular attention in the last decades due to their wide application in different fields, from optical devices to biomedicine. In this work, compounds having these kinds of properties, composed of tetraphenylethylene scaffold combined with fatty acids of different lengths, were synthesized and characterized. These molecules were found able to self-assemble into different supramolecular emissive structures depending on the chemical composition and water content. Furthermore, they were used as N-terminus capping agents in the development of peptide-based materials. The functionalization of a 5-mer laminin-derived peptide led to the obtainment of luminescent fibrillary materials that were not cytotoxic and were able to form supramolecular gels in aqueous environment.
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- Elisa Impresari
- DISFARM, Dipartimento Di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Sezione Chimica Generale e Organica “A. Marchesini”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “G.Natta”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-SCITEC), Milan, Italy
- SmartMatLab Center, Milan, Italy
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- DISFARM, Dipartimento Di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Sezione Chimica Generale e Organica “A. Marchesini”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- CRC Materiali Polimerici “LaMPo”, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Departiment of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- DISFARM, Dipartimento Di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Sezione Chimica Generale e Organica “A. Marchesini”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- DISFARM, Dipartimento Di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Sezione Chimica Generale e Organica “A. Marchesini”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
- *Correspondence: Sara Pellegrino,
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