TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schulz, Alexander
A1  - Würthner, Frank
T1  - Folding-induced fluorescence enhancement in a series of merocyanine hetero-folda-trimers
T2  - Angewandte Chemie International Edition
N2  - Many dyes suffer from fast non-radiative decay pathways, thereby showing only short-lived excited states and weak photoluminescence. Here we show a pronounced fluorescence enhancement for a weakly fluorescent merocyanine (MC) dye by being co-facially stacked to other dyes in hetero-folda-trimer architectures. By means of fluorescence spectroscopy (lifetime, quantum yield) the fluorescence enhancement was explained by the rigidification of the emitting chromophore in the defined foldamer architecture and the presence of a non-forbidden lowest exciton state in H-coupled hetero-aggregates. This folding-induced fluorescence enhancement (FIFE) for specific sequences of π-stacked dyes points at a viable strategy toward improved fluorophores that relates to the approach used by nature in the green fluorescent protein (GFP).
KW  - organic chemistry
KW  - merocyanines
KW  - aggregation
KW  - dyes/pigments
KW  - fluorescence
KW  - folding
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25658
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-256582
VL  - 61
IS  - 2
ER  -