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Turlakov G, Arias E, Moggio I, Rodríguez G, Ziolo RF, Rodríguez-Fernández OS, Mikhaylov A, Uudsemaa M, Cooper T, Rebane A. Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Push-Pull Oligo(ferrocenyl-phenyleneethynylene)s: Supramolecular Orders in Molecular Films. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:4077-4089. [PMID: 35316062 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We report on the optoelectronic properties of a series of unsymmetrical π-conjugated phenyleneethynylene macromolecules bearing ferrocene (Fc) as the electron-donor group (D), (benzyl) benzoate (Bz) or benzoic acid (Ac) as the electron attractor group (A) and connected through 2,5-di(alcoxy) phenyleneethynylene(s) (nPE) with n = 1, 2, 3 as π-conjugated bridges. In the series, by increasing the distance between the electron-attracting and electron-donor groups, the push-pull effect decreases. The intramolecular charge transfer (D → π → A) was evaluated by static and dynamic spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and density functional theory (DFT) theoretical calculations. The longest oligomer Fc3PEBz formed the best optical quality films. A study at the atomic level by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) revealed that the molecules self-assemble on highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) in domains with a short-range order. Films are mesoporous and the molecules arrange in a lamellar-like pattern, with an edge-on conformation with respect to HOPG, where the conjugated backbones lie parallel to the surface. Two different assemblies were identified in the monoatomic film, which depends on the ferrocene-ferrocene or benzyl-benzyl interactions.
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- Gleb Turlakov
- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA), Boulevard Enrique Reyna 140, Saltillo 25294, México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA), Boulevard Enrique Reyna 140, Saltillo 25294, México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA), Boulevard Enrique Reyna 140, Saltillo 25294, México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA), Boulevard Enrique Reyna 140, Saltillo 25294, México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA), Boulevard Enrique Reyna 140, Saltillo 25294, México
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- Physics Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States
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- National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Akadeemia tee 23, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, 3005 Hobson Way, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, United States
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- Physics Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States
- National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Akadeemia tee 23, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
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Hernández M, Ortiz-Castro R, Flores-Olivas A, Moggio I, Arias E, Valenzuela-Soto JH. Fluorescence detection of pyrene-stained Bacillus subtilis LPM1 rhizobacteria from colonized patterns of tomato roots. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2021; 19:1423-1432. [PMID: 32970082 DOI: 10.1039/d0pp00199f] [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 of water soluble 8-alcoxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic sodium salts bearing different alcoxy lateral chains and functional end groups was synthesized and the molecular structure was corroborated by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The photophysical properties in water analyzed by UV-Vis and static and dynamic fluorescence revealed that all of the pigments emit in the blue region at a maximal wavelength of 436 nm and with fluorescence lifetimes in the range of ns. Among them, sodium 8-((10-carboxydecyl) oxy) pyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonate M1 exhibits a high fluorescence quantum yield (φ = 80%) and a good interaction with B. subtilis LPM1 rhizobacteria; this has been demonstrated through in vitro staining assays. Tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicon cv. Micro-Tom) increased the release of root exudates, mainly malic and fumaric acids, after 12 h of treatment with benzothiadiazole (BTH) as a foliar elicitor. However, the chemotaxis analysis demonstrated that malic acid is the most powerful chemoattractant of the rhizobacteria Bacillus subtilis LPM1: in agar plates, a major growth (60 mm) was found for a concentration of 100 mM, while in capillary tubes, the earliest response was at 30 min with 3.3 × 108 CFU mL-1. The confocal microscopic analysis carried out on the tomato roots of the pyrene stained B. subtilis LPM1 revealed that this bacterium mainly colonizes the epidermal zones, i.e. the junctions to primary roots, lateral roots and root hairs, meaning that these root hair sections are the highest colonisable sites involved in the biosynthesis of exudates. This fluorescent pyrene marker M1 represents a valuable tool to evaluate B. subtilis-plant interactions in an easy and quick test in both in vitro and in vivo tomato crops.
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- Mónica Hernández
- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Boulevard Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, Saltillo, C.P. 25294, Coahuila, Mexico.
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- Red de Estudios Moleculares Avanzados, Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, C.P. 91070, Veracruz, Mexico
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- Departamento de Parasitología, Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Buenavista, Saltillo, C.P. 25315, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Boulevard Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, Saltillo, C.P. 25294, Coahuila, Mexico.
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Boulevard Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, Saltillo, C.P. 25294, Coahuila, Mexico.
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- CONACYT-Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Boulevard Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, Saltillo, C.P. 25294, Coahuila, Mexico.
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Gangemi CMA, Barattucci A, Bonaccorsi PM. A Portrait of the OPE as a Biological Agent. Molecules 2021; 26:3088. [PMID: 34064279 PMCID: PMC8196911 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26113088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Revised: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Oligophenylene ethynylenes, known as OPEs, are a sequence of aromatic rings linked by triple bonds, the properties of which can be modulated by varying the length of the rigid main chain or/and the nature and position of the substituents on the aromatic units. They are luminescent molecules with high quantum yields and can be designed to enter a cell and act as antimicrobial and antiviral compounds, as biocompatible fluorescent probes directed towards target organelles in living cells, as labelling agents, as selective sensors for the detection of fibrillar and prefibrillar amyloid in the proteic field and in a fluorescence turn-on system for the detection of saccharides, as photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy (due to their capacity to highly induce toxicity after light activation), and as drug delivery systems. The antibacterial properties of OPEs have been the most studied against very popular and resistant pathogens, and in this paper the achievements of these studies are reviewed, together with almost all the other roles held by such oligomers. In the recent decade, their antifungal and antiviral effects have attracted the attention of researchers who believe OPEs to be possible biocides of the future. The review describes, for instance, the preliminary results obtained with OPEs against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed Ambientali (ChiBioFarAm), Università degli Studi di Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy; (C.M.A.G.); (P.M.B.)
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Flores JR, Castruita-De León G, Turlakov G, Arias E, Moggio I, Montemayor SM, Torres R, Ledezma R, Ziolo RF, González-Torres J. Dual Emission of meso-Phenyleneethynylene-BODIPY Oligomers: Synthesis, Photophysics, and Theoretical Optoelectronic Study. Chemistry 2021; 27:2493-2505. [PMID: 33119951 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202004481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Two series of 2,5-di(butoxy)phenyleneethynylenes, one halogenated (nPEC4-X; n=2, 3, or 4) and the other boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) terminated (nPEC4-By; n=3, 4, or 5; By=BODIPY), were synthesized monodirectionally by the step-by-step approach and the molecular structure was corroborated by NMR spectroscopy (1 H, 13 C-DEPTQ-135, COSY, HSQC, HMBC, 11 B, 19 F) and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The multiplicity and J-coupling constants of 1 H, 11 B, and 19 F/11 B NMR signals revealed, in the nPEC4-By series, that the phenyl in the meso position of BODIPY becomes electronically part of the conjugation of the phenyleneethynylene chain, whereas BODIPY is electronically isolated. The photophysical, electrochemical, and theoretical studies confirm this finding because the properties of nPEC4-By are comparable to those of the nPEC4-X oligomers and BODIPY, indicating negligible electron communication between BODIPY and the nPEC4 moieties. Nevertheless, energy transfer (ET) from nPEC4 to BODIPY was rationalized by spectroscopy and theoretical calculations. Its yield decreases with the nPEC4 conjugation length, according to the increase in distance between the two chromophores, resulting in dual emission for the longest oligomer in which ET is quenched.
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- J Reyes Flores
- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- CONACYT-Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada, Blvd. Enrique Reyna Hermosillo 140, 25294, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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- Área de Física Atómica Molecular Aplicada (FAMA), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco CBI, Av. San Pablo 180, Col. Reynosa Tamaulipas, CD de México, C.P., 02200, Mexico
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Well-Defined Conjugated Macromolecules Based on Oligo(Arylene Ethynylene)s in Sensing. Processes (Basel) 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/pr8050539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Macromolecules with well-defined structures in terms of molar mass and monomer sequence became interesting building blocks for modern materials. The precision of the macromolecular structure makes fine-tuning of the properties of resulting materials possible. Conjugated macromolecules exhibit excellent optoelectronic properties that make them exceptional candidates for sensor construction. The importance of chain length and monomer sequence is particularly important in conjugated systems. The oligomer length, monomer sequence, and structural modification often influence the energy bang gap between the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the molecules that reflect in their properties. Moreover, the supramolecular aggregation that is often observed in oligo-conjugated systems is usually strongly affected by even minor structural changes that are used for sensor designs. This review discusses the examples of well-defined conjugated macromolecules based on oligo(arylene ethynylene) skeleton used for sensor applications. Here, exclusively examples of uniform macromolecules are summarized. The sensing mechanisms and importance of uniformity of structure are deliberated.
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