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Tsuji H, Nakahata M, Hishida M, Seto H, Motokawa R, Inoue T, Egawa Y. Water Fraction Dependence of the Aggregation Behavior of Hydrophobic Fluorescent Solutes in Water-Tetrahydrofuran. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:11235-11241. [PMID: 38060373 PMCID: PMC10726388 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2023] [Revised: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
Abstract
This work investigates the water fraction dependence of the aggregation behavior of hydrophobic solutes in water-tetrahydrofuran (THF) and the elucidation of the role of THF using fluorescence microscopy, dynamic light scattering, neutron and X-ray scattering, and photoluminescence measurements. On the basis of the obtained results, the following model is proposed: hydrophobic molecules are molecularly dispersed in the low-water-content region (10-20 vol %), while they form mesoscopic particles upon increasing the water fraction to ∼30 vol %. This abrupt change is due to the composition fluctuation of the water-THF binary system to form hydrophobic areas in THF, followed by THF-rich droplets where hydrophobic solutes are incorporated and form loose aggregates. Further increasing the water content prompts the desolvation of THF, which decreases the particle size and generates tight aggregates of solute molecules. This model is consistent with the luminescence behavior of the solutes and will be helpful to control the aggregation state of hydrophobic solutes in various applications.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hayato Tsuji
- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa
University, 3-27-1 Rokkaku-bashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
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- Department
of Macromolecular Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo
University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162−8601, Japan
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- Institute
of Materials Structure Science / J-PARC Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Materials
Sciences Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy
Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa
University, 3-27-1 Rokkaku-bashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa
University, 3-27-1 Rokkaku-bashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
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Tsuji H. Carbon-bridged Oligo(phenylenevinylene)s that Reveal Cryogenic Phenomena at Room Temperature. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2022. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20220041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Hayato Tsuji
- Kanagawa University, 2946 Tsuchiya, Hiratsuka 259-1293
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Majumder S, Ghosh S, Pyne P, Ghosh A, Ghosh D, Hajra A. Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Biheteroarenes via Dehydrogenative and Decarboxylative Coupling: a Decade Update. CHEM REC 2021; 22:e202100288. [PMID: 34970849 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202100288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
The design and development of robust and efficient methods for installing one heterocycle with another is endowed as a ubiquitous and powerful synthetic strategy to access complex organic biheterocycles in recent days due to their pervasive applications in medicinal as well as material chemistry. This perspective presents an overview on the recent findings and developments for the synthesis of unsymmetrical biheteroarenes via dehydrogenative and decarboxylative couplings with literature coverage mainly extending from 2011 to 2021. For simplification of the readers, the article has been subcategorized based on the catalysts used in the reactions.
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- Souvik Majumder
- Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan, 731235, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan, 731235, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan, 731235, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan, 731235, India
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- Department of Chemistry, St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Bangalore, 560027, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati (A Central University), Santiniketan, 731235, India
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