TY  - JOUR
A1  - Turkin, Arthur
A1  - Holzapfel, Marco
A1  - Agarwal, Mohit
A1  - Fischermeier, David
A1  - Mitric, Roland
A1  - Schweins, Ralf
A1  - Gröhns, Franziska
A1  - Lambert, Christoph
T1  - Solvent Induced Helix Folding of Defined Indolenine Squaraine Oligomers
JF  - Chemistry—A European Journal
N2  - A protecting group strategy was employed to synthesise a series of indolenine squaraine dye oligomers up to the nonamer. The longer oligomers show a distinct solvent dependence of the absorption spectra, that is, either a strong blue shift or a strong red shift of the lowest energy bands in the near infrared spectral region. This behaviour is explained by exciton coupling theory as being due to H- or J-type coupling of transition moments. The H-type coupling is a consequence of a helix folding in solvents with a small Hansen dispersity index. DOSY NMR, small angle neutron scattering (SANS), quantum chemical and force field calculations agree upon a helix structure with an unusually large pitch and open voids that are filled with solvent molecules, thereby forming a kind of clathrate. The thermodynamic parameters of the folding process were determined by temperature dependent optical absorption spectra.
KW  - UV/Vis spectroscopy
KW  - dye chemistry
KW  - solvent effects
KW  - superstructure
KW  - supramolecular folding
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-256869
VL  - 27
IS  - 32
ER  -