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Riahin C, Meares A, Esemoto NN, Ptaszek M, LaScola M, Pandala N, Lavik E, Yang M, Stacey G, Hu D, Traeger JC, Orr G, Rosenzweig Z. Hydroporphyrin-Doped Near-Infrared-Emitting Polymer Dots for Cellular Fluorescence Imaging. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:20790-20801. [PMID: 35451825 PMCID: PMC9210996 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c02551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent semiconductor polymer dots (Pdots) have shown great potential for fluorescence imaging due to their exceptional chemical and photophysical properties. This paper describes the synthesis of NIR-emitting Pdots with great control and tunability of emission peak wavelength. The Pdots were prepared by doping poly[(9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-2,7-diyl)-alt-co-(1,4-benzo-(2,1',3)-thiadiazole)] (PFBT), a semiconducting polymer commonly used as a host polymer in luminescent Pdots, with a series of chlorins and bacteriochlorins with varying functional groups. Chlorins and bacteriochlorins are ideal dopants due to their high hydrophobicity, which precludes their use as molecular probes in aqueous biological media but on the other hand prevents their leakage when doped into Pdots. Additionally, chlorins and bacteriochlorins have narrow deep red to NIR-emission bands and the wide array of synthetic modifications available for modifying their molecular structure enables tuning their emission predictably and systematically. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements show the chlorin- and bacteriochlorin-doped Pdots to be nearly spherical with an average diameter of 46 ± 12 nm. Efficient energy transfer between PFBT and the doped chlorins or bacteriochlorins decreases the PFBT donor emission to near baseline level and increases the emission of the doped dyes that serve as acceptors. The chlorin- and bacteriochlorin-doped Pdots show narrow emission bands ranging from 640 to 820 nm depending on the doped dye. The paper demonstrates the utility of the systematic chlorin and bacteriochlorin synthesis approach by preparing Pdots of varying emission peak wavelength, utilizing them to visualize multiple targets using wide-field fluorescence microscopy, binding them to secondary antibodies, and determining the binding of secondary antibody-conjugated Pdots to primary antibody-labeled receptors in plant cells. Additionally, the chlorin- and bacteriochlorin-doped Pdots show a blinking behavior that could enable their use in super-resolution imaging methods like STORM.
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- Connor Riahin
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, United States
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Hegde H, Sinha RK, Kulkarni SD, Shetty NS. Synthesis, photophysical and DFT studies of naphthyl chalcone and nicotinonitrile derivatives. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.112222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Fujita H, Jing H, Krayer M, Allu S, Veeraraghavaiah G, Wu Z, Jiang J, Diers JR, Magdaong NCM, Mandal AK, Roy A, Niedzwiedzki DM, Kirmaier C, Bocian DF, Holten D, Lindsey JS. Annulated bacteriochlorins for near-infrared photophysical studies. NEW J CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj01113g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Bacteriochlorins with phenaleno or benzo annulation absorb at 913 or 1033 nm and exhibit excited-state lifetimes of 150 or 7 ps, suggesting applications in photoacoustic imaging.
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- Hikaru Fujita
- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of California
- Riverside
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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- Department of Energy
- Environmental & Chemical Engineering and Center for Solar Energy and Energy Storage
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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Ohashi K, Kinoshita Y, Tamiaki H. Syntheses of Chalcone-Type Chlorophyll Derivatives Possessing a Bacteriochlorin, Chlorin or Porphyrin π-System and Their Optical Properties. Photochem Photobiol 2018; 95:755-761. [PMID: 30378689 DOI: 10.1111/php.13044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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C3-(Trans-2-arylethenyl)carbonylated chlorophyll derivatives possessing a bacteriochlorin or chlorin π-system were synthesized by cross-aldol (Claisen-Schmidt) condensation of methyl pyrobacteriopheophorbide-a or 3-acetyl-3-devinyl-pyropheophorbide-a bearing the C3-acetyl group with p-(un)substituted benzaldehydes under basic conditions. The corresponding porphyrin-type chlorophyll derivatives were prepared by the oxidation (17,18-didehydrogenation) of the chlorin-type. Their Qy absorption and fluorescence emission maxima in dichloromethane correlated well with Hammett substituent constants of the p-substituents. Several electron-withdrawing p-substituents suppressed the emission due to photoinduced electron transfer quenching in a molecule. The substitution sensitivities for their maxima and fluorescence quantum yields decreased in the order of bacteriochlorin-, chlorin- and porphyrin-type derivatives.
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- Kota Ohashi
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
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Meares A, Bhagavathy GV, Zik SR, Gallagher T, Ptaszek M. Expanding π-Conjugation in Chlorins Using Ethenyl Linker. J Org Chem 2018; 83:9076-9087. [PMID: 30033724 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A series of chlorin monomers and dyads has been prepared to probe the effect of ethenyl vs ethynyl linkers on the electronic conjugation and optical properties in resulting derivatives. Styryl-substituted chlorins have been prepared either by a Heck reaction or by microwave-assisted olefin metathesis, while β-β ethenyl-linked dyads have been synthesized from the corresponding vinyl-substituted chlorin monomer using microwave-assisted olefin metathesis. It has been found that when an ethenyl linker is connected at the β-position of chlorin it provides stronger electronic conjugation than an ethynyl one, which is manifested by a greater bathochromic shift of the longest wavelength absorption (Q y) and emission bands. Stronger electronic coupling is particularly evident for dyads, where ethenyl-linked dyad exhibits a strong near-IR absorption band emission (λabs = 707 nm, λem = 712 nm, Φf = 0.45), compared to the deep-red absorption and emission of a corresponding ethynyl-linked dyad (λabs = 689 nm, λem = 691 nm, Φf = 0.48). The reactivity of ethenyl-linked dyads with singlet oxygen is discussed as well. The results reported here provide further guidelines for molecular design of deep-red and near-IR absorbing and intensely emitting chlorin derivatives and chlorins with extended π-electronic conjugation for a variety of photonic applications.
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- Adam Meares
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Maryland, Baltimore County , 1000 Hilltop Circle , Baltimore , Maryland 21250 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Maryland, Baltimore County , 1000 Hilltop Circle , Baltimore , Maryland 21250 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Maryland, Baltimore County , 1000 Hilltop Circle , Baltimore , Maryland 21250 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Maryland, Baltimore County , 1000 Hilltop Circle , Baltimore , Maryland 21250 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Maryland, Baltimore County , 1000 Hilltop Circle , Baltimore , Maryland 21250 , United States
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Synthesis of chlorophyll-a derivatives possessing the 3-(2-acylethenyl) group by cross-aldol condensation and their optical properties. Tetrahedron 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2018.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Horne TK, Cronjé MJ. Mechanistics and photo-energetics of macrocycles and photodynamic therapy: An overview of aspects to consider for research. Chem Biol Drug Des 2017; 89:221-242. [DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.12761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Revised: 03/24/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Tamarisk K. Horne
- Department of Biochemistry; Faculty of Science; University of Johannesburg; Auckland Park South Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry; Faculty of Science; University of Johannesburg; Auckland Park South Africa
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Liu M, Chen CY, Hood D, Taniguchi M, Diers JR, Bocian DF, Holten D, Lindsey JS. Synthesis, photophysics and electronic structure of oxobacteriochlorins. NEW J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6nj04135c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Synthetic oxobacteriochlorins exhibit strong absorption in the deep-red window flanked by chlorins to the red and bacteriochlorins to the near-infrared.
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- Mengran Liu
- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of California
- Riverside
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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Zhang L, Liu J, Gao J, Lu R, Liu F. Adjustment of the solid fluorescence of a chalcone derivative through controlling steric hindrance. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra09122b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A chalcone derivative, ANPEO, exhibits weak emission in the solution state but high fluorescence efficiency in the solid state (66%).
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- Liang Zhang
- School of Material Science and Engineering
- Yancheng Institute of Technology
- Yancheng 224051
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials
- Shandong University
- Jinan
- P. R. China
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- College of Materials and Textiles
- Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
- Hangzhou
- China
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- School of Material Science and Engineering
- Yancheng Institute of Technology
- Yancheng 224051
- China
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- School of Material Science and Engineering
- Yancheng Institute of Technology
- Yancheng 224051
- China
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Mirkovic T, Ostroumov EE, Anna JM, van Grondelle R, Govindjee, Scholes GD. Light Absorption and Energy Transfer in the Antenna Complexes of Photosynthetic Organisms. Chem Rev 2016; 117:249-293. [PMID: 27428615 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 587] [Impact Index Per Article: 73.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The process of photosynthesis is initiated by the capture of sunlight by a network of light-absorbing molecules (chromophores), which are also responsible for the subsequent funneling of the excitation energy to the reaction centers. Through evolution, genetic drift, and speciation, photosynthetic organisms have discovered many solutions for light harvesting. In this review, we describe the underlying photophysical principles by which this energy is absorbed, as well as the mechanisms of electronic excitation energy transfer (EET). First, optical properties of the individual pigment chromophores present in light-harvesting antenna complexes are introduced, and then we examine the collective behavior of pigment-pigment and pigment-protein interactions. The description of energy transfer, in particular multichromophoric antenna structures, is shown to vary depending on the spatial and energetic landscape, which dictates the relative coupling strength between constituent pigment molecules. In the latter half of the article, we focus on the light-harvesting complexes of purple bacteria as a model to illustrate the present understanding of the synergetic effects leading to EET optimization of light-harvesting antenna systems while exploring the structure and function of the integral chromophores. We end this review with a brief overview of the energy-transfer dynamics and pathways in the light-harvesting antennas of various photosynthetic organisms.
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- Tihana Mirkovic
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto , 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University , Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania , 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam , De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, and Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto , 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada.,Department of Chemistry, Princeton University , Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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de Assis FF, Ferreira MAB, Brocksom TJ, de Oliveira KT. NIR bacteriochlorin chromophores accessed by Heck and Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions on a tetrabromobacteriochlorin derivative. Org Biomol Chem 2016; 14:1402-12. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ob02228b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The synthesis of a new tetrabromobacteriochlorin BCBr4 is reported. Pd cross-coupling reactions yielded tetra-coupled products with a significant red shift in the UV-Vis bands.
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- Francisco F. de Assis
- Departamento de Química
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar
- 13565-905 São Carlos
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar
- 13565-905 São Carlos
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar
- 13565-905 São Carlos
- Brazil
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- Departamento de Química
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar
- 13565-905 São Carlos
- Brazil
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Yang E, Zhang N, Krayer M, Taniguchi M, Diers JR, Kirmaier C, Lindsey JS, Bocian DF, Holten D. Integration of Cyanine, Merocyanine and Styryl Dye Motifs with Synthetic Bacteriochlorins. Photochem Photobiol 2015; 92:111-25. [PMID: 26505265 DOI: 10.1111/php.12547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 10/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Understanding the effects of substituents on spectral properties is essential for the rational design of tailored bacteriochlorins for light-harvesting and other applications. Toward this goal, three new bacteriochlorins containing previously unexplored conjugating substituents have been prepared and characterized. The conjugating substituents include two positively charged species, 2-(N-ethyl 2-quinolinium)vinyl- (B-1) and 2-(N-ethyl 4-pyridinium)vinyl- (B-2), and a neutral group, acroleinyl- (B-3); the charged species resemble cyanine (or styryl) dye motifs whereas the neutral unit resembles a merocyanine dye motif. The three bacteriochlorins are examined by static and time-resolved absorption and emission spectroscopy and density functional theoretical calculations. B-1 and B-2 have Qy absorption bathochromically shifted well into the NIR region (822 and 852 nm), farther than B-3 (793 nm) and other 3,13-disubstituted bacteriochlorins studied previously. B-1 and B-2 have broad Qy absorption and fluorescence features with large peak separation (Stokes shift), low fluorescence yields, and shortened S1 (Qy ) excited-state lifetimes (~700 ps and ~100 ps). More typical spectra and S1 lifetime (~2.3 ns) are found for B-3. The combined photophysical and molecular-orbital characteristics suggest the altered spectra and enhanced nonradiative S1 decay of B-1 and B-2 derive from excited-state configurations in which electron density is shifted between the macrocycle and the substituents.
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- Eunkyung Yang
- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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Lindsey JS. De novo synthesis of gem-dialkyl chlorophyll analogues for probing and emulating our green world. Chem Rev 2015; 115:6534-620. [PMID: 26068531 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Jonathan S Lindsey
- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8204, United States
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Jiang J, Taniguchi M, Lindsey JS. Near-infrared tunable bacteriochlorins equipped for bioorthogonal labeling. NEW J CHEM 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5nj00209e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Nine new near-infrared absorbing (729–820 nm) synthetic bacteriochlorins are equipped with one of four reactive groups for bioorthogonal conjugation.
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- Jianbing Jiang
- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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Niedzwiedzki DM, Orf GS, Tank M, Vogl K, Bryant DA, Blankenship RE. Photophysical properties of the excited states of bacteriochlorophyll f in solvents and in chlorosomes. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:2295-305. [PMID: 24410285 DOI: 10.1021/jp409495m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Bacteriochlorophyll f (BChl f) is a photosynthetic pigment predicted nearly 40 years ago as a fourth potential member of the Chlorobium chlorophyll family (BChl c, d, and e). However, this pigment still has not been found in a naturally occurring organism. BChl c, d, and e are utilized by anoxygenic green photosynthetic bacteria for assembly of chlorosomes--large light-harvesting complexes that allow those organisms to survive in habitats with extremely low light intensities. Recently, using genetic methods on two different strains of Chlorobaculum limnaeum that naturally produce BChl e, two research groups produced mutants that synthesize BChl f and assemble it into chlorosomes. In this study, we present detailed investigations on spectral and dynamic characteristics of singlet excited and triplet states of BChl f with the application of ultrafast time-resolved absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies. The studies were performed on isolated BChl f in various solvents, at different temperatures, and on BChl f-containing chlorosomes in order to uncover any unusual or unfavorable properties that stand behind the lack of appearance of this pigment in natural environments.
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- Dariusz M Niedzwiedzki
- Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center, ‡Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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Springer JW, Taniguchi M, Krayer M, Ruzié C, Diers JR, Niedzwiedzki DM, Bocian DF, Lindsey JS, Holten D. Photophysical properties and electronic structure of retinylidene–chlorin–chalcones and analogues. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2014; 13:634-50. [DOI: 10.1039/c3pp50421b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Aggarwal A, Thompson S, Singh S, Newton B, Moore A, Gao R, Gu X, Mukherjee S, Drain CM. Photophysics of glycosylated derivatives of a chlorin, isobacteriochlorin and bacteriochlorin for photodynamic theragnostics: discovery of a two-photon-absorbing photosensitizer. Photochem Photobiol 2013; 90:419-30. [PMID: 24112086 DOI: 10.1111/php.12179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Revised: 09/16/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The photophysical properties of a chlorin, isobacteriochlorin and bacteriochlorin built on a core tetrapentafluorophenylporphyrin (TPPF20 ) and the nonhydrolyzable para thioglycosylated conjugates of these chromophores are presented. The photophysical characterization of these compounds was done in three different solvents to correlate with different environments in cells and tissues. Compared with TPPF20 other dyes have greater absorption in the red region of the visible spectrum and greater fluorescence quantum yields. The excited state lifetimes are from 3 to 11 ns. The radiative and nonradiative rate constants for deactivation of the excited state were estimated from the fluorescence quantum yield and excited state lifetime. The data indicate that the bacteriochlorin has strong absorption bands near 730 nm and efficiently enters the triplet manifold. The isobacteriochlorin has a 40-70% fluorescence quantum yield depending on solvent, so it may be a good fluorescent tag. The isobacteriochlorins also display enhanced two-photon absorption, thereby allowing the use of 860 nm light to excite the compound. While the two-photon cross section of 25 GM units is not large, excitation of low chromophore concentrations can induce apoptosis. The glycosylated compounds accumulate in cancer cells and a head and neck squamous carcinoma xenograft tumor model in mice. These compounds are robust to photobleaching.
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- Amit Aggarwal
- Department of Chemistry, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY; Department of Science, Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York, New York, NY
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Wang J, Yang E, Diers JR, Niedzwiedzki DM, Kirmaier C, Bocian DF, Lindsey JS, Holten D. Distinct Photophysical and Electronic Characteristics of Strongly Coupled Dyads Containing a Perylene Accessory Pigment and a Porphyrin, Chlorin, or Bacteriochlorin. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:9288-304. [DOI: 10.1021/jp405004d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jieqi Wang
- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
27695-8204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4889,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Riverside, California 92521-0403,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4889,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4889,
United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Riverside, California 92521-0403,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
27695-8204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4889,
United States
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