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Fresch E, Collini E. The Role of H-Bonds in the Excited-State Properties of Multichromophoric Systems: Static and Dynamic Aspects. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28083553. [PMID: 37110786 PMCID: PMC10141795 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28083553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Given their importance, hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) have been the subject of intense investigation since their discovery. Indeed, H-bonds play a fundamental role in determining the structure, the electronic properties, and the dynamics of complex systems, including biologically relevant materials such as DNA and proteins. While H-bonds have been largely investigated for systems in their electronic ground state, fewer studies have focused on how the presence of H-bonds could affect the static and dynamic properties of electronic excited states. This review presents an overview of the more relevant progress in studying the role of H-bond interactions in modulating excited-state features in multichromophoric biomimetic complex systems. The most promising spectroscopic techniques that can be used for investigating the H-bond effects in excited states and for characterizing the ultrafast processes associated with their dynamics are briefly summarized. Then, experimental insights into the modulation of the electronic properties resulting from the presence of H-bond interactions are provided, and the role of the H-bond in tuning the excited-state dynamics and the related photophysical processes is discussed.
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- Elisa Fresch
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
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Huang X, Domcke W. Ab initio trajectory surface-hopping dynamics studies of excited-state proton-coupled electron transfer reactions in trianisoleheptazine-phenol complexes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:15925-15936. [PMID: 35726762 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01262f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The excited-state proton-coupled electron-transfer (PCET) reaction in hydrogen-bonded complexes of trianisoleheptazine (TAHz), a chromophore related to polymeric carbon nitrides widely used in hydrogen-evolution photocatalysis, with several phenol derivatives were recently studied by Schlenker and coworkers with time-resolved photoluminescence quenching and pump-probe experiments. A pronounced dependence of the PCET reactivity on the electron-donating/electron-withdrawing character of the substituents on phenol was found, with indications of a barrierless or nearly barrierless PCET reaction for the most strongly electron-donating substituent, methoxy. In the present work, the excited-state PCET dynamics was explored with first-principles nonadiabatic dynamics simulations using the TDDFT/ωB97X-D electronic-structure model for two selected complexes, TAHz-phenol and TAHz-methoxyphenol. The qualitative reliability of the TDDFT/ωB97X-D electronic-structure model was assessed by extensive benchmarking of excitation energies and potential-energy profiles against a wave-function-based ab initio method, the algebraic-diagrammatic construction of second order (ADC(2)). The nonadiabatic dynamics simulations provide temporally and structurally resolved insights into paradigmatic PCET reactions in TAHz-phenol complexes. The radiationless relaxation of the photoexcited bright 1ππ* state to the long-lived dark S1 state of TAHz occurs in less than 100 fs. The ensuing PCET reaction on the adiabatic S1 surface is faster in TAHz-methoxyphenol complexes than in TAHz-phenol complexes due to a lower H-atom-transfer barrier, as observed in the experiments. The relaxation of the complexes to the electronic ground state is found to occur exclusively via PCET within the 250 fs time window covered by the present simulations, confirming the essential role of the hydrogen bond for the fluorescence quenching process. The absolute values of the computed PCET time constants are significantly shorter than those extracted from time-resolved photoluminescence measurements for mixtures of TAHz with phenolic substrates in toluene. The possible origins of this discrepancy are discussed.
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- Xiang Huang
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching, Germany.
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Li C, Wang T, Fan M, Wang N, Lin X, Sun Y, Cui X. Hydrogen Bond-Enhanced Nanoaggregation and Antisolvatochromic Fluorescence for Protein-Recognition by Si-Coumarins. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:1954-1962. [PMID: 35138866 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Silicon-substituted coumarin (SiC) was established as a substantial family of both intramolecular and intermolecular hydrogen bond (H-bond) enhanced fluorescent probes for sensitively tracking proteins in vivo through the assemble and disassemble of its nanoaggregates. The intramolecular H-bond in SiC has led to significant aggregation, antisolvatochromism, and strong fluorescence with bathochromically shifted spectra into far-red or near-infrared (NIR) regions in polar, protic environments. Without further furnishing with organic linkers, the compact skeleton of SiC bearing H-bond has ensured sensitively and selectively sensing the targeting proteins with the protic reaction pockets through efficient disassemble of the aggregates. In the existence of strong intermolecular H-bonds with the target protein pocket, SiC resolved as high as >250-fold fluorescence enhancement. Selectively tracking proteins, including human serum albumin, human carbonic anhydrase (hCAII), avidin, SNAP-tag protein, and translocator protein, has confirmed SiC a versatile skeleton for sensitively monitoring proteins in complicated biological systems.
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- Chen Li
- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200241, P.R. China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Naval Medical University, 800 Xiangyin Road, Shanghai, 200433, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200241, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200241, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200241, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200241, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200241, P.R. China
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Akong RA, Görls H, Woods JAO, Plass W, Eseola AO. ESIPT-inspired fluorescent turn-on sensitivity towards aluminium(III) detection by derivatives of O- and S-bridged bis-(phenol-imine) molecules. RESULTS IN CHEMISTRY 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rechem.2021.100236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Wang B, Xu H, Zhang H, Zhang GM, Li FY, He S, Shi ZC, Wang JY. B(C6F5)3-catalyzed three-component tandem reaction to construct novel polycyclic quinone derivatives: synthesis of a carbonate salt chromogenic chemosensor. Org Chem Front 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1qo01199e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A series novel polycyclic quinone derivatives were constructed providing a carbonate salt chromogenic chemosensor.
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- Bei Wang
- Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiraltechnology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, Xihua University, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiraltechnology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, Xihua University, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiraltechnology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, Xihua University, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiraltechnology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, Xihua University, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiraltechnology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, Xihua University, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, PR China
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- Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, PR China
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- Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiraltechnology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, Xihua University, China
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Narula A, Hussain MA, Upadhyay A, Rao CP. 1,3-Di-naphthalimide Conjugate of Calix[4]arene as a Sensitive and Selective Sensor for Trinitrophenol and This Turns Reversible when Hybridized with Carrageenan as Beads. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:25747-25756. [PMID: 33073100 PMCID: PMC7557251 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c03060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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A fluorescent naphthalimide conjugate of calix[4]arene (L1 ) has been synthesized and characterized. The selective and efficient detection of trinitrophenol (TNP) by L1 among nine other different nitroaromatic compounds was demonstrated using absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The minimum detection limit is 29 nM, which is the lowest reported so far by any conjugate of calixarene toward TNP. The fluorescence quenching is associated with a high Stern-Volmer constant of 3.3 ± 0.4 × 105 M-1. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) data revealed a network structure with pores having a weighted average size of 0.66 ± 0.08 μm for L1 . When incubated with TNP, the pores were filled with fibril structures, as supported by both SEM and TEM data. In order to demonstrate the real time applications, the L1 has been coated onto a Whatman filter paper and the imprint of TNP contaminated thumb has been detected upon physical contact. The 1HNMR titration and the studies carried out using the control molecule support the necessity of both the naphthalimide moiety and the calixarene platform for sensing. In order to mend L1 as a reversible sensor for TNP, the same is incorporated into carrageenan beads (L1 @Cb ) and the reversible sensing has been shown for three cycles by reusing the same material upon recovery followed by washing it. The solid-state detection of TNP has also been demonstrated using the lyophilized L1 @Cb bead powder. The fluorescence intensity of L1 was quenched upon addition of solid TNP to the lyophilized bead powder of L1 @Cb as studied by fluorescence microscopy. The computational studies show that one of the arms of the calixarene takes a bent conformation, and the 1:1 TNP complex of L1 is stabilized by exhibiting differential extents of hydrogen bonding interactions with the two arms owing to their conformational difference. The result of such complexation was already felt through the shifts observed in the experimentally measured 1HNMR spectra.
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- Ashiv Narula
- Bioinorganic
Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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- Bioinorganic
Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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- Bioinorganic
Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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- Bioinorganic
Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology
Tirupati, Settipalli post, Tirupati 517 506 Andhra
Pradesh, India
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Domcke W, Sobolewski AL, Schlenker CW. Photooxidation of water with heptazine-based molecular photocatalysts: Insights from spectroscopy and computational chemistry. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:100902. [PMID: 32933269 DOI: 10.1063/5.0019984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present a conspectus of recent joint spectroscopic and computational studies that provided novel insight into the photochemistry of hydrogen-bonded complexes of the heptazine (Hz) chromophore with hydroxylic substrate molecules (water and phenol). It was found that a functionalized derivative of Hz, tri-anisole-heptazine (TAHz), can photooxidize water and phenol in a homogeneous photochemical reaction. This allows the exploration of the basic mechanisms of the proton-coupled electron-transfer (PCET) process involved in the water photooxidation reaction in well-defined complexes of chemically tunable molecular chromophores with chemically tunable substrate molecules. The unique properties of the excited electronic states of the Hz molecule and derivatives thereof are highlighted. The potential energy landscape relevant for the PCET reaction has been characterized by judicious computational studies. These data provided the basis for the demonstration of rational laser control of PCET reactions in TAHz-phenol complexes by pump-push-probe spectroscopy, which sheds light on the branching mechanisms occurring by the interaction of nonreactive locally excited states of the chromophore with reactive intermolecular charge-transfer states. Extrapolating from these results, we propose a general scenario that unravels the complex photoinduced water-splitting reaction into simple sequential light-driven one-electron redox reactions followed by simple dark radical-radical recombination reactions.
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- Wolfgang Domcke
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Hossen T, Sahu K. Photo-induced Electron Transfer or Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Methylbipyridine/Phenol Complexes: A Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Investigation. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:8122-8129. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Tousif Hossen
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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Thongyod W, Buranachai C, Pengpan T, Punwong C. Fluorescence quenching by photoinduced electron transfer between 7-methoxycoumarin and guanine base facilitated by hydrogen bonds: an in silico study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:16258-16269. [PMID: 31304496 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp02037c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this study, the effects of hydrogen bond (H-bond) formation on fluorescence quenching of 7-methoxycoumarin (7MC) via photo-induced electron transfer from a guanine base (Gua) are investigated using a combined quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics simulation. The electronic structure is calculated by the floating occupation molecular orbital complete active space configuration interaction modification on a semiempirical method. Then the full multiple spawning method is employed for the dynamics simulations on multiple electronic states. The methods employed here are validated by simulating direct dynamics of 7MC (without Gua) and compared with available experimental results. Our computational results are in good agreement with the previously reported experimental results in terms of spectroscopic properties of 7MC. In the case of a H-bonded 7MC-Gua complex, the results from constrained dynamics simulations and single-point calculations suggest that the electron transfer occurs on the second excited state and it depends not only on the H-bond length but also on the intermolecular planarity between 7MC and Gua. Moreover, a proton coupled electron transfer can occur at ≈1 Å of H-bond length, where a proton from Gua is also transferred together with the electron to 7MC. The obtained simulations are expected to be greatly beneficial for designing effective fluorescently labeled nucleotide probes as well as providing information for precise fluorescence signal interpretation.
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- Wutthinan Thongyod
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand. and Center of Excellence for Trace Analysis and Biosensor, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand. and Center of Excellence for Trace Analysis and Biosensor, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
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