TY - JOUR A1 - Wildervanck, Martijn J. A1 - Hecht, Reinhard A1 - Nowak-Król, Agnieszka T1 - Synthesis and strong solvatochromism of push-pull thienylthiazole boron complexes JF - Molecules N2 - The solvatochromic behavior of two donor-π bridge-acceptor (D-π-A) compounds based on the 2-(3-boryl-2-thienyl)thiazole π-linker and indandione acceptor moiety are investigated. DFT/TD-DFT calculations were performed in combination with steady-state absorption and emission measurements, along with electrochemical studies, to elucidate the effect of two different strongly electron-donating hydrazonyl units on the solvatochromic and fluorescence behavior of these compounds. The Lippert–Mataga equation was used to estimate the change in dipole moments (Δµ) between ground and excited states based on the measured spectroscopic properties in solvents of varying polarity with the data being supported by theoretical studies. The two asymmetrical D-π-A molecules feature strong solvatochromic shifts in fluorescence of up to ~4300 cm\(^{−1}\) and a concomitant change of the emission color from yellow to red. These changes were accompanied by an increase in Stokes shift to reach values as large as ~5700–5800 cm\(^{−1}\). Quantum yields of ca. 0.75 could be observed for the N,N-dimethylhydrazonyl derivative in nonpolar solvents, which gradually decreased along with increasing solvent polarity, as opposed to the consistently reduced values obtained for the N,N-diphenylhydrazonyl derivative of up to ca. 0.20 in nonpolar solvents. These two push–pull molecules are contrasted with a structurally similar acceptor-π bridge-acceptor (A-π-A) compound. KW - solvatochromism KW - donor–acceptor KW - fluorescence KW - hydrazone KW - Lippert–Mataga plot KW - push–pull thienylthiazole KW - tetracoordinated boron Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-286186 SN - 1420-3049 VL - 27 IS - 17 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sung, Jooyoung A1 - Kim, Pyosang A1 - Fimmel, Benjamin A1 - Würthner, Frank A1 - Kim, Dongho T1 - Direct observation of ultrafast coherent exciton dynamics in helical π-stacks of self-assembled perylene bisimides JF - Nature Communications N2 - Ever since the discovery of dye self-assemblies in nature, there have been tremendous efforts to exploit biomimetic supramolecular assemblies for tailored artificial photon processing materials. This feature necessarily has resulted in an increasing demand for understanding exciton dynamics in the dye self-assemblies. In a sharp contrast with pi-type aggregates, however, the detailed observation of exciton dynamics in H-type aggregates has remained challenging. In this study, as we succeed in measuring transient fluorescence from Frenkel state of π-stacked perylene tetracarboxylic acid bisimide dimer and oligomer aggregates, we present an experimental demonstration on Frenkel exciton dynamics of archetypal columnar π-π stacks of dyes. The analysis of the vibronic peak ratio of the transient fluorescence spectra reveals that unlike the simple π-stacked dimer, the photoexcitation energy in the columnar π-stacked oligomer aggregates is initially delocalized over at least three molecular units and moves coherently along the chain in tens of femtoseconds, preceding excimer formation process. KW - systems KW - molecules KW - J-aggregate behavior KW - absorption KW - spectroscopy KW - photoluminescence KW - diffusion KW - fluorescence KW - excimer formation KW - organic semiconductors Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-148157 VL - 6 IS - 8646 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stolte, Matthias A1 - Hecht, Reinhard A1 - Xie, Zengqi A1 - Liu, Linlin A1 - Kaufmann, Christina A1 - Kudzus, Astrid A1 - Schmidt, David A1 - Würthner, Frank T1 - Crystal Engineering of 1D Exciton Systems Composed of Single‐ and Double‐Stranded Perylene Bisimide J‐Aggregates JF - Advanced Optical Materials N2 - Single crystals of three at bay area tetraphenoxy‐substituted perylene bisimide dyes are grown by vacuum sublimation. X‐ray analysis reveals the self‐assembly of these highly twisted perylene bisimides (PBIs) in the solid state via imide–imide hydrogen bonding into hydrogen‐bonded PBI chains. The crystallographic insights disclose that the conformation and sterical congestion imparted by the phenoxy substituents can be controlled by ortho‐substituents. Accordingly, whilst sterically less demanding methyl and isopropyl substituents afford double‐stranded PBI chains of complementary P and M atropo‐enantiomers, single hydrogen‐bonded chains of homochiral PBIs are observed for the sterically more demanding ortho‐phenyl substituents. Investigation of the absorption and fluorescence properties of microcrystals and thin films of these PBIs allow for an unambiguous interpretation of these exciton systems. Thus, the J‐aggregates of the double‐stranded crystals exhibit a much larger (negative) exciton coupling than the single‐stranded one, which in contrast has the higher solid‐state fluorescence quantum yield. KW - fluorescence KW - J‐aggregates KW - perylene bisimides KW - reabsorption KW - single crystal structure Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-218221 VL - 8 IS - 18 ER - TY - THES A1 - Stepanenko, Vladimir T1 - Self-Assembly of Bay-Substituted Perylene Bisimide by Ligand-Metal Ion Coordination T1 - Selbstorganisation der Bay-substituierten Perylenbisimiden durch Metallionen-induzierte Koordination N2 - The subject of this thesis is the synthesis and characterization of PBI-based fluorescent metallosupramolecular polymers and cyclic arrays. Terpyridine receptor functionalized PBIs of predesigned geometry have been used as building blocks to construct desired macromolecular structures through metal-ion-directed self-assembly. These metallosupramolecular architectures have been investigated by NMR, UV/Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and atomic force microscopy. N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Synthese und Charakterisierung von fluoreszierenden metallsupramolekularen Koordinations-polymeren und Makrozyklen. Als Bausteine für die Bildung dieser makromolekularen Strukturen durch Metallionen-induzierte Selbstorganisationsprozesse wurden Terpyridin-funktionalisierte Perylenbisimide verwendet, welche bereits die benötigte Geometrie besitzen. Die Charakterisierung der Komplexbildung und der optischen Eigenschaften der gebildeten metallsupramolekularen Architekturen, sowie die Visualisierung der Makromoleküle und Charakterisierung ihrer Organisationseigenschaften auf verschiedenen Oberflächen wurden durchgeführt. KW - Supramolekulare Chemie KW - Supramolekulare Struktur KW - Fluoreszenz KW - Zweidimensionale NMR-Spektroskopie KW - NMR-Spektroskopie KW - Protonen-NMR-Spektroskopie KW - Zink KW - Polymerlösung KW - Polymere KW - Funktionelle Polymere KW - DOSY-NMR KW - UV/Vis-Absorption KW - cyclische Trimere KW - Metall-Ion KW - Koordinationspolymere KW - Perylenbisimid KW - Perylenbisanhydrid KW - cyclic trimer KW - coordination polymer KW - fluorescence KW - supramolecular chemistry KW - metal-ion-ligand coordination KW - DOSY-NMR Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-32063 ER - TY - THES A1 - Stahl, Rainer T1 - Electroactive Conjugated Polymers as Charge-Transport Materials for Optoelectronic Thin-Film Devices T1 - Elektroaktive konjugierte Polymere als Ladungstransport-Materialien für optoelektronische Dünnschichtbauelemente N2 - In this work the electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical properties of a series of pi-conjugated organic polymers were studied. The polymers were deposited on platinum electrodes or ITO-coated glass substrates by potentiodynamic electro-polymerisation of the corresponding monomeric precursor molecules. The electro-chemical and photophysical properties of the triarylborane monomers were studied in detail in order to estimate possible influences on the behaviour of the corresponding polymer. The first part of this work aimed at the synthesis and investigation of conjugated donor–acceptor polymers which combine the prerequisites of an OLED within one material: the transport of positive and negative charges and the formation of emissive excited states. With the carbazole-substituted oxadiazoles 1–3 it was shown that on the one hand the carbazole functionality is suitable for enabling the electrochemical polymerisation of the monomers and on the other hand it facilitates reversible p-doping of the resultant polymers. Although n-doping of poly-1–poly-3 is possible due to the electron-deficient oxadiazole rings, it causes the continuous degradation of these electron-acceptor units. Interestingly, this process does not influence the capability of p-doping of the polymers. With respect to its electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical properties the behaviour of the borane polymer poly-4 is absolutely identical with that of the oxadiazole polymers. Moreover, the optical excitation of poly-4 in the solid state leads to the emission of blue-green light which suggests that this polymer might also possess electroluminescent properties. AFM-measurements of poly-4 films on ITO-coated glass substrates revealed, that the film thickness can be controlled to a certain extent by the number of polymerisation redox cycles. It was shown from the electrochemical and photophysical properties of the triarylboranes 4–6 that the pi–pi-interaction between boron and nitrogen atoms is comparably weak in these molecules. This leads to an unexpected ground-state polarisation with a partially positive boron atom and a partially negative nitrogen atom. Moreover, it was found that TAB 4 possesses a lower symmetry than D3 in solution and that excitation energy can be transferred amongst the three subchromophores of 4. By titration experiments it was also demonstrated that TAB 4 can reversibly bind fluoride ions and that the binding event significantly influences the optical absorption characteristics of the chromophore. It can be assumed, that the above mentioned properties, which have a profound influence on the photophysical behaviour of these triarylborane chromophores, also determine the behaviour of the corresponding polymer in a solid state environment. The aim of the second part of this work was the investigation of purely n-conducting materials based on electron-deficient borane and viologen polymers. The corresponding precursor molecules should be polymerised on platinum electrodes by reductive electropolymerisation. However, a reductive polymerisation was not possible for the borane monomer 19 which is thought to be due to a strong localisation of the unpaired electron on the central boron atom of the radical anion. An electropolymerisation of the cyano-substituted bispyridinio-compound 17 failed because of the poor quality of CN– as a leaving group. Thus, a synthesis of the analogous isomer 18 was developed, in which the cyano-substituents were exchanged by the better leaving group Cl–. The viologen polymer poly-18, which can be regarded as an electron-deficient iso-electronic analogue of poly(para-phenylene), was successfully deposited on a platinum electrode by reductive electropolymerisation of 18. Poly-18 can be reversibly n-doped at comparably low potentials; however, at higher potentials the polymer is overcharged and destroyed irreversibly. As the synthetic strategy for 18 allows the variation of both spacer unit and leaving group in the last two steps of the reaction sequence, a series of analogous compounds can be easily synthesised using this route. N2 - Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden die elektrochemischen und spektroelektrochemischen Eigenschaften einer Reihe von pi-konjugierten organischen Polymeren untersucht. Die Polymere wurden durch potentiodynamische Elektropolymerisation der entsprechenden monomeren Vorläufermoleküle auf Platinelektroden bzw. ITO-beschichteten Glassubstraten abgeschieden. Im Falle der Triarylborane wurden die elektrochemischen und photophysikalischen Eigenschaften der Monomere genauer untersucht, um mögliche Einflüsse auf das entsprechende Polymer abschätzen zu können. Der erste Teil dieser Arbeit zielte auf die Synthese und Untersuchung von konjugierten Donor-Akzeptor-Polymeren ab, die die Grundvoraussetzungen für OLEDs in einem Material vereinen: den Transport von positiven und negativen Ladungen sowie die Bildung von emittierenden angeregten Zuständen. Anhand der Carbazol-substituierten Oxadiazole 1–3 konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Carbazol-Funktionalität einerseits geeignet ist eine elektrochemische Polymerisierbarkeit der Monomere zu gewährleisten und andererseits eine reversible p-Dotierung der resultierenden Polymere möglich macht. Eine n-Dotierung der Polymere poly-1–poly-3 ist aufgrund der elektronenarmen Oxadiazol-Ringe zwar möglich, führt aber zum schrittweisen Abbau dieser Akzeptor-Eiheiten. Interessanter-weise lassen sich die Polymere aber weiterhin p-dotieren. Hinsichtlich seiner elektrochemischen und spektroelektrochemischen Eigen-schaften weißt das Boran-Polymer poly-4 ein zu den Oxadiazol-Polymeren absolut identisches Verhalten auf. Darüber hinaus konnte gezeigt werden, dass die optische Anregung von poly-4 im Festkörper zur Emission von blau-grünem Licht führt, was die Vermutung nahe legt, dass dieses Polymer auch elektrolumineszierende Eigenschaften besitzen könnte. AFM-Messungen an Filmen von poly-4 auf ITO-beschichteten Glassubstraten ergaben weiterhin, dass sich die Schichtdicke des Polymers durch die Anzahl der Polymerisationszyklen in einem gewissen Bereich einstellen lässt. Anhand der elektrochemischen und photophysikalischen Eigenschaften der Triarylborane 4–6 konnte gezeigt werden, dass die pi-Konjugation zwischen den Bor- und Stickstoff-Atomen in diesen Molekülen sehr gering ist. Dies führt zu einer ungewöhnlichen Grundzustandspolarisation mit partiell positivem Bor und partiell negativem Stickstoff. Darüber hinaus wurde festgestellt, dass das Triarylboran 4 in Lösung eine geringere Symmetrie als D3 aufweißt und dass die durch eine optische Anregung aufgenommene Energie entlang der identischen Subchromophore von 4 übertragen werden kann. Durch Titrationsexperimente konnte außerdem gezeigt werden, dass 4 Fluoridionen reversibel binden kann, wobei sich das optische Absoptionsverhalten des Chromophors deutlich ändert. Es kann angenommen werden, dass die genannten Eigenschaften, die sich entscheidend auf das photophysikalische Verhalten dieser Triarylboran-Chromophore auswirken, auch die Eigenschaften des entsprechenden Polymers im Festkörper beeinflussen. Im zweiten Teil dieser Arbeit sollten reine n-Leiter Materialien auf der Basis von elektronenarmen Boran- bzw. Viologen-Polymeren untersucht werden. Die entsprechenden Vorläufermoleküle sollten dabei durch reduktive Elektro-polymerisation auf Platinelektroden polymerisiert werden. Im Falle des Boran-Monomers 19 war eine reduktive Polymerisation nicht möglich, was vermutlich auf eine starke Lokalisierung des ungepaarten Elektrons auf dem zentralen Boratom des Radikalanions zurückzuführen ist. Bei der Cyano-substituierten Bispyridinio-Verbindung 17 scheiterte eine reduktive Elektro-polymerisation an der schlechten Qualität von CN– als Abgangsgruppe. Daher wurde eine Synthese für das analoge Isomer 18 entwickelt, bei dem die Cyano-Substituenten gegen die bessere Abgangsgruppe Cl– ausgetauscht wurden. Durch reduktive Elektropolymerisation von 18 konnte das entsprechende Viologen-Polymer, welches als elektronenarmes isoelektronisches Analogon zu Poly(para-phenylen) angesehen werden kann, auf einer Platinelektrode abgeschieden werden. Das Viologen-Polymer poly-18 kann bereits bei relativ niedrigen Potentialen reversibel n-dotiert werden, bei zu hohen Potentialen wird das Polymer jedoch überladen und irreversible zerstört. Da es die für 18 verwendete Synthesestrategie erlaubt, sowohl die Spacereinheit als auch die Abgangsgruppe in den letzten zwei Reaktionsschritten zu variieren, sind auf diesem Weg weitere analoge Verbindungen leicht zugänglich. KW - Polymerhalbleiter KW - OLED KW - halbleitende Polymere KW - OLED KW - Borane KW - Fluoreszenz KW - semiconducting polymers KW - OLED KW - boranes KW - fluorescence Y1 - 2005 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-16980 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schulz, Alexander A1 - Würthner, Frank T1 - Folding-induced fluorescence enhancement in a series of merocyanine hetero-folda-trimers JF - 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 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-256582 VL - 61 IS - 2 ER - TY - THES A1 - Rehm, Stefanie T1 - Spermine-functionalized Perylene Bisimide Dyes: Synthesis and Self-assembly in Water T1 - Spermin-funktionalisierte Perylenbisimid Farbstoffe: Synthese und Selbstassemblierung in Wasser N2 - The main objective of this thesis was the design and synthesis of perylene bisimide dyes with sufficient water-solubility for the construction of self-assembled architectures in aqueous solutions. Beside these tasks another goal of this project was the control over the self-assembly process in terms of aggregate size and helicity, respectively. Within this thesis an appropriate synthesis for spermine-functionalized perylene bisimide dyes was developed and conducted successfully. The characterization of these building blocks and their course of self-assembly were investigated by NMR, UV/Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy as well as by atomic force and transmission electron microscopy. For the better understanding of the experimental results theoretical calculations were performed. N2 - Ziel dieser Dissertation war das Design und die Synthese von Perylenbisimiden mit hinreichender Wasserlöslichkeit, die für den Aufbau von selbständig assemblierten Strukturen in wässrigen Lösungen verwendet werden sollen. Ein weiteres Ziel dieses Projektes war die Kontrolle über den Prozess der Selbstanordnung hinsichtlich der Aggregatgröße beziehungsweise deren Helizität. Im Rahmen dieser Doktorarbeit wurde eine entsprechende Synthese für Spermin-funktionalisierte Perylenbisimide entworfen und erfolgreich durchgeführt. Die Charakterisierung dieser Bausteine und der Prozess deren Selbstanordnung wurde mit Hilfe von NMR-, UV/Vis- und Fluoreszenz-Spektroskopie aber auch mit Rasterkraft- und Elektronentransmissionsmikroskopie durchgeführt. Für das bessere Verständnis der experimentellen Ergebnisse wurden theoretische Berechnungen durchgeführt. KW - Perylenderivate KW - Selbstorganisation KW - perylene bisimide KW - spermine KW - polyamine KW - bola-amphiphile KW - fluorescence KW - Perylenbisimid KW - Spermin KW - Polyamin KW - Bola-Amphiphil KW - Fluoreszenz KW - Aggregation Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-123201 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mahl, Magnus A1 - Shoyama, Kazutaka A1 - Krause, Ana‐Maria A1 - Schmidt, David A1 - Würthner, Frank T1 - Base‐Assisted Imidization: A Synthetic Method for the Introduction of Bulky Imide Substituents to Control Packing and Optical Properties of Naphthalene and Perylene Imides JF - Angewandte Chemie International Edition N2 - We report the direct imidization of naphthalene and perylene dicarboxylic anhydrides/esters with bulky ortho,ortho‐diaryl‐ and ortho,ortho‐dialkynylaniline derivatives. This imidization method uses n‐butyllithium as a strong base to increase the reactivity of bulky amine derivatives, proceeds under mild reaction conditions, requires only stoichiometric amounts of reactants and gives straightforward access to new sterically crowded rylene dicarboximides. Mechanistic investigations suggest an isoimide as intermediary product, which was converted to the corresponding imide upon addition of an aqueous base. Single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction analyses reveal dimeric packing motifs for monoimides, while two‐side shielded bisimides crystallize in isolated molecules without close π–π‐interactions. Spectroscopic investigations disclose the influence of the bulky substituents on the optical properties in the solid state. KW - dyes KW - fluorescence KW - imidization KW - perylene imide KW - solid-state emitters Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-218246 VL - 59 IS - 32 SP - 13401 EP - 13405 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Höbartner, Claudia A1 - Steinmetzger, Christian A1 - Palanisamy, Navaneethan A1 - Gore, Kiran R. T1 - A multicolor large Stokes shift fluorogen-activating RNA aptamer with cationic chromophores T2 - Chemistry - A European Journal N2 - Large Stokes shift (LSS) fluorescent proteins (FPs) exploit excited state proton transfer pathways to enable fluorescence emission from the phenolate intermediate of their internal 4 hydroxybenzylidene imidazolone (HBI) chromophore. An RNA aptamer named Chili mimics LSS FPs by inducing highly Stokes-shifted emission from several new green and red HBI analogs that are non-fluorescent when free in solution. The ligands are bound by the RNA in their protonated phenol form and feature a cationic aromatic side chain for increased RNA affinity and reduced magnesium dependence. In combination with oxidative functional-ization at the C2 position of the imidazolone, this strategy yielded DMHBO\(^+\), which binds to the Chili aptamer with a low-nanomolar K\(_D\). Because of its highly red-shifted fluorescence emission at 592 nm, the Chili–DMHBO\(^+\) complex is an ideal fluorescence donor for Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to the rhodamine dye Atto 590 and will therefore find applications in FRET-based analytical RNA systems. KW - RNA Aptamer KW - fluorescence KW - large Stokes shift KW - fluorescent protein KW - fluorescent resonance energy transfer Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-174197 N1 - This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Steinmetzger, C. , Palanisamy, N. , Gore, K. . and Höbartner, C. (2018), A multicolor large Stokes shift fluorogen‐activating RNA aptamer with cationic chromophores. Chem. Eur. J. doi:10.1002/chem.201805882, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201805882. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hattori, Yohei A1 - Michail, Evripidis A1 - Schmiedel, Alexander A1 - Moos, Michael A1 - Holzapfel, Marco A1 - Krummenacher, Ivo A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Müller, Ulrich A1 - Pflaum, Jens A1 - Lambert, Christoph T1 - Luminescent Mono-, Di-, and Tri-radicals: Bridging Polychlorinated Triarylmethyl Radicals by Triarylamines and Triarylboranes JF - Chemistry - A European Journal N2 - Up to three polychlorinated pyridyldiphenylmethyl radicals bridged by a triphenylamine carrying electron withdrawing (CN), neutral (Me), or donating (OMe) groups were synthesized and analogous radicals bridged by tris(2,6‐dimethylphenyl)borane were prepared for comparison. All compounds were as stable as common closed‐shell organic compounds and showed significant fluorescence upon excitation. Electronic, magnetic, absorption, and emission properties were examined in detail, and experimental results were interpreted using DFT calculations. Oxidation potentials, absorption and emission energies could be tuned depending on the electron density of the bridges. The triphenylamine bridges mediated intramolecular weak antiferromagnetic interactions between the radical spins, and the energy difference between the high spin and low spin states was determined by temperature dependent ESR spectroscopy and DFT calculations. The fluorescent properties of all radicals were examined in detail and revealed no difference for high and low spin states which facilitates application of these dyes in two‐photon absorption spectroscopy and OLED devices. KW - density functional calculations KW - fluorescence KW - NIR OLED KW - radical KW - two-photon absorption Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-208162 VL - 25 IS - 68 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Griesbeck, Stefanie A1 - Michail, Evripidis A1 - Rauch, Florian A1 - Ogasawara, Hiroaki A1 - Wang, Chenguang A1 - Sato, Yoshikatsu A1 - Edkins, Robert M. A1 - Zhang, Zuolun A1 - Taki, Masayasu A1 - Lambert, Christoph A1 - Yamaguchi, Shigehiro A1 - Marder, Todd B. T1 - The Effect of Branching on the One‐ and Two‐Photon Absorption, Cell Viability, and Localization of Cationic Triarylborane Chromophores with Dipolar versus Octupolar Charge Distributions for Cellular Imaging JF - Chemistry – A European Journal N2 - Two different chromophores, namely a dipolar and an octupolar system, were prepared and their linear and nonlinear optical properties as well as their bioimaging capabilities were compared. Both contain triphenylamine as the donor and a triarylborane as the acceptor, the latter modified with cationic trimethylammonio groups to provide solubility in aqueous media. The octupolar system exhibits a much higher two‐photon brightness, and also better cell viability and enhanced selectivity for lysosomes compared with the dipolar chromophore. Furthermore, both dyes were applied in two‐photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) live‐cell imaging. KW - boranes KW - cell imaging KW - fluorescence KW - lysosome KW - two-photon excited fluorescence Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-212887 VL - 25 IS - 57 SP - 13164 EP - 13175 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Full, Felix A1 - Wölflick, Quentin A1 - Radacki, Krzysztof A1 - Braunschweig, Holger A1 - Nowak‐Król, Agnieszka T1 - Enhanced Optical Properties of Azaborole Helicenes by Lateral and Helical Extension JF - Chemistry – A European Journal N2 - The synthesis and characterization of laterally extended azabora[5]‐, ‐[6]‐ and ‐[7]helicenes, assembled from N‐heteroaromatic and dibenzo[g,p]chrysene building blocks is described. Formally, the π‐conjugated systems of the pristine azaborole helicenes were enlarged with a phenanthrene unit leading to compounds with large Stokes shifts, significantly enhanced luminescence quantum yields (Φ) and dissymmetry factors (g\(_{lum}\)). The beneficial effect on optical properties was also observed for helical elongation. The combined contributions of lateral and helical extensions resulted in a compound showing green emission with Φ of 0.31 and |g\(_{lum}\)| of 2.2×10\(^{−3}\), highest within the series of π‐extended azaborahelicenes and superior to emission intensity and chiroptical response of its non‐extended congener. This study shows that helical and lateral extensions of π‐conjugated systems are viable strategies to improve features of azaborole helicenes. In addition, single crystal X‐ray analysis of configurationally stable [6]‐ and ‐[7]helicenes was used to provide insight into their packing arrangements. KW - azaborole KW - circularly polarized luminescence KW - fluorescence KW - helicene KW - π-extension Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-293671 VL - 28 IS - 62 ER -