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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, University Medical Centre Göttingen (1)
Although known about and investigated since the late 1970’s, the picture of the basic principles governing inhibitor strengths and the structure-activity relationships of the cysteine protease inhibition mechanism is still very incomplete. Computational approaches can be a very useful tool for investigating such questions, as they allow the inspection of single, specific effects in isolation from all others, in a manner very difficult to achieve experimentally. The ab initio treatments of such large systems like proteins are still not feasible. However, there is a vast number of computational approaches capable of dealing with protein structures with reasonable accuracy. This work presents a summary of theoretical investigations into cysteine protease cathepsin B using a range of methods. We have concentrated on the investigation of cysteine protease inhibition by epoxide- and aziridine-based inhibitors in order to obtain better insight into these important topics. Various model systems are simulated by means of pure quantum mechanical methods and by hybrid (QM/MM) methods. Both approaches provide a static picture. Dynamical effects are then accounted for by additional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, using both classical and QM/MM MD approaches. The quantum mechanical approach was used to study very small model systems consisting only of the electrophilic warhead of the inhibitor (both substitituted and not) and molecular moieties simulating a very simplified protein active site (methylthiolate instead of Cys29 and methylimidazolium instead of His199 residue) and solvent surroundings (two waters or two ammonium ions, in combination with a continuum solvent model). Although simple, such a system provides a good description of the most important interactions involved in the inhibition reaction. It also allows investigation of the influence of the properties of the electrophilic warhead on the reaction rate. Beside the properties of the electrophilic warhead, the protein and solvent environment is also an important factor in the irreversible deactivation of the enzyme active site by the inhibitor. The non-covalent interactions of the inhibitor with the oxyanion hole and other subsites of the enzyme, as well as its interaction with the solvent molecules, need to be explicitly taken into account in the calculations, because of their possible impact on the reaction profile. As molecular modeling methods allow the treatment of such large systems, but lack the possibility of describing covalent interactions, our method of choice was the combined quantum mechanics/molecular modeling approach. By splitting the system into a smaller part that undergoes the bond cleavage/formation process and must be treated quantum mechanically, and a larger part, comprised of the rest of the protein, which could be treated using force fields, we managed to simulate the system at the desired precision. Our investigations concentrated on the role of His199 in the inhibition mechanism as well as on the structure-reactivity relationships between cysteine protease and various inhibitors, yielding new insight into the kinetics, regio- and stereospecificity of the inhibition. In particular, our calculations provide the following insights: i.) an explanation for the regioselectivity of the reaction, and original insight into which interactions affect the stereoselectivity; ii.) a clear model which explains the known structure-activity relationships and connects these effects with the pH-dependency of the inhibition; iii.) our computations question the generally accepted two-step model by showing that substituent effects accelerate the irreversible step to such an extent that the achievement of an equilibrium in the first step is doubtful; iv.) by way of theoretical characterizations of aziridine models, the reasons for similarities and differences in the mode of action of epoxide- and aziridine-based inhibitors are elucidated; and finally, v.) combining our results with experimental knowledge will allow rational design of new inhibitors. To account for dynamical effects as well, molecular dynamics (MD) computations were also performed. In these calculations the potential energy was computed at the force field level. The results not only supported and clarified the QM/MM results, but comparison with previous X-ray structures helped correct existing errors in the available geometrical models and resolved inconsistencies in the weighting of various factors governing the inhibition. In the work the first QM/MM MD calculations on the active site of the cysteine proteases are presented. In contrast to the MD simulations, these calculations used potential energies computed at the QM/MM-level. With the help of these computations we sought to address strongly disputed questions about the reasons for the existence of the active site ion pair and its role in the high activity of the enzyme.
In the first part of this work a new approach to measure transient absorption spectra of fluorescent compounds by means of laser flash photolysis technique was presented. Generally, the recorded transient absorption signal consists of transient absorption, fluorescence and ground state bleaching. Thus, for fluorescent chromophores a fluorescence correction is indispensable in order to obtain undisturbed absorption decay curves as well as accurate transient absorption spectra. Due to time response characteristics of the PMT detector the fluorescence contribution cannot be corrected by recording the fluorescence separately. Measuring two transient absorption signals with probe light differing in intensity, compounds with quantum yields up to ~ 35 % can be investigated. This is a major improvement because transient absorption spectroscopy is a powerful method to gain insight into the kinetics and the energy of excited states and information in the time domain of fluorescence are no longer lost. In the second part the synthesis and the photophysical characterisation of redox cascades were reported. These cascades consist of an acridine acceptor and up to three triarylamine donor subunits. The redox potentials of the triarylamines were tuned by adequate substituents in the para-position of the phenyl ring to ensure a directed redox gradient. Upon photoexcitation a locally excited state or a CT state is populated which then injects a hole onto the adjacent donor and consequently results in a CS state. Fluorescence and transient absorption measurements revealed that HT depends strongly on donor strength and solvent polarity. Formation of a CS state was only observed in case of strong terminal donors or polar solvents. A low lying localised triplet state acts as an energy trap and quenches all CS states even in case of the cascade with the strongest terminal donor in very polar solvents. Furthermore, population of a CS state catalyses the formation of this triplet states which results in a shorter lifetime of the CS state compared to the lifetime of the CT state of the corresponding reference compound. Compared to redox cascades already reported in literature, the electronic coupling between the redox centres was decreased by sterical as well as electronic effects. To prolong the lifetime of the CS state saturated spacers on the one hand and a perpendicular orientation of the acceptor and the adjacent donor on the other hand were selected. The twisting of the subunits forming the CT state results in a higher degree of charge separation but its contribution to increase the lifetimes of the CS states is of minor importance. The longer lifetime of the CS states can be ascribed to the saturated spacers. Experimental data in combination with calculated values indicate that charge recombination takes place in the Marcus normal region by a superexchange mechanisms. Although charge recombination of the known cascades is located in the Marcus inverted region, these CS states decay faster than the CS states of the compounds investigated in this work.
The present work deals with the synthesis and the investigation of the photophysical properties of covalently constructed calix[4]arene–perylene bisimide dye arrays containing various PBI units. The obtained conjugates are characterized with respect towards their application in a new, zigzag-type architecture of artificial light-harvesting systems. For this purpose, orange (core-unsubstituted), red (6,7,11,12-tert-butylphenoxy-functionalized) and green (1,7-pyrrolidino-substituted) perylene bisimide building blocks have been attached to the calix[4]arene scaffold. First, the monochromophoric reference systems have been studied, and second, the photophysical properties of a comprehensive series of newly synthesized, multichromophoric calix[4]arene–perylene bisimide conjugates showing efficient energy transfer processes between the individual dye subunits have been investigated. Furthermore, a series of bichromophoric compounds containing identical chromophoric units has been obtained. Towards this goal, a variety of spectroscopic techniques such as UV/vis absorption, steady state and time-resolved fluorescence emission, and femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy as well as a spectrotemporal analysis of the obtained data has been applied. This work presents a new concept for an artificial light-harvesting system positioning the dye units by means of calix[4]arene spacers along a zigzag chain. The investigations start with the syntheses and optical properties of the monochromophoric building blocks and result in an elaborate study on the energy and electron transfer processes occurring after photoexcitation in a comprehensive series of multichromophoric calix[4]arene–perylene bisimide conjugates. Finally, the photophysical properties of a series of compounds containing each two identical PBI units are discussed.
The effective binding of anions like carboxylates and phosphates in aqueous solutions is of particular interest for various reasons. The natural archetypes of effective anion receptors are enzymes that contain often arginine as relevant amino acid in the binding pocket. For this reason, one class of artificial anion receptors that emerged more than two decades ago mimics the anion binding with the guanidinium group present in the amino acid side chain. In 1999, Schmuck and coworkers developed a new class of guanidinium-based oxo anion receptor that binds carboxylates even in aqueous media. The binding modes of the 2-(guanidiniocarbonyl)-1H-pyrroles are based on individually weak non-covalent interaction between artificial host and substrate like ion pairing and multiple hydrogen bonds. The zwitterionic derivative with substitution of a carboxylate group in position 5 of the pyrrole ring system shows a strong self-assembly to discrete dimers (dimer 1) with an estimated association constant of 170 M-1 even in water. In order to further improve the structure motif for an effective oxo anion binding it is therefore of great interest to quantify the different intermolecular interactions between two monomeric units of 1. Against this background several theoretical ab initio studies were conducted in order to elucidate the influences of intrinsic properties as well as solvent effects on the stability of self-assembled dimers. In chapter 4.1 the molecular interactions in dimer 1 were investigated by comparison to various “knock-out” analogues. In these analogues single hydrogen bonds were switched off by substitution of hydrogen donor atoms with either methylene groups or ether bridges. The calculations were done for vacuum and solvation, as represented by a conductor-like polarizable continuum. It could be shown that the application of a simple continuum solvent model fails to predict the absolute energies of the knock-out analogues in strongly polar solvents. However, the calculated trends can explain the relative stabilities. In chapter 4.2 the structural similarity of arginine with structure 1 was used in order to examine the dependence of self-assembly from the flexibility of the molecular structure. In chapter 4.2.1 new global minimum structures of the canonical and zwitterionic arginine in gas phase were found by means of exhaustive force field based conformational searches in conjunction with ab initio structure optimizations of the lowest energy conformers. Most of the newly identified minimum conformers of both the zwitterionic and canonical tautomer revealed geometrical arrangements with hitherto unreported stacked orientations of the terminal groups. Finally a novel global minimum structure was detected that is more than 8 kJ mol-1 lower in energy than the previously published conformers. The same strategy for finding minimum energy conformers of the arginine monomer has also been employed for the arginine dimer structures. While previous theoretical studies favoured directed hydrogen bonds the new global minimum structure MMFF1 is about 60 kJ mol-1 more stable and exhibits a stacked orientation of the guanidinium and carboxylate groups. The importance of rigidity on the dimer stability was proven by calculations of an artificially stiffened arginine dimer system. The high binding affinity dimer 1 results by about 50% from the rigidity of the monomers which prevents any intramolecular stabilization. In chapter 4.3 novel structure motifs with varying ring systems have been examined on a DFT level of theory in order to make proposals for an improved carboxylate binding motif. The direct dependency of the dimerization energy on an increasing dipole moment was demonstrated by various anellated ring structures. The influence of the delocalization in the monomer on the dimerization energy was examined by variation of the electronic structure of electronically decoupled biphenylenes. With the aid of various substituted 7-guanidinioindole-2-carboxylate derivatives we could show that the carbonyl function is mainly responsible for the advantageous preorganisation, whereas the effect on the acidity seems to be only of minor importance. In the last chapter cooperativity effects in supramolecular assemblies have been investigated. This was achieved by NMR shift calculations of adenosine-carboxylic acid complexes as model systems and comparison to experimental low-temperature NMR studies. We could demonstrate that only by applying vibrational averaged NMR shifts the experimental proton shifts obtained at very low temperatures in the hydrogen bond exchange regime could be reproduced.
Oxygen-centered radicals are important intermediates in photobiological, mechanistic and synthetic studies. The majority of precursors of reactive oxyl radicals are labile and thus delicate to handle. Therefore N-(alkoxy)-pyridinethiones and N-(Alkoxy)-thiazolethiones have attracted attention as "mild'' photochemical source of alkoxyl radicals, in the last few years. A disadvantage of the pyridine compounds, is their sensibility to daylight. Despite of their similarities, both molecules behave surprisingly different, if photolyzed in the absence of trapping reagents. The pyridinethione compounds undergo highly efficient radical chain reactions under such conditions while the corresponding thiazolethiones react surprisingly sluggish and give rise to several unwanted side products. The properties of both compounds should be understood and optimized in the frame of this work. Additionally new compounds should be suggested that can also be applied in the photochemical alkoxyl radical generation. Some background information about the generation and application of alkoxyl radicals is provided in chapter 2. Electronic excitations and UV/vis spectroscopy together with a description of quantum chemical approaches that are able to calculate such phenomena are outlined in chapter 3. Chapter 4 deals with the description of the vertical excitation spectra. During the validation CASSCF, CASPT2, TD-DFT and RI-CC2 were tested with respect to their ability to describe the vertical excitations in both compounds. The CASPT2 approach gives accurate descriptions of the electronic excitation spectra of all compounds. The time-dependent DFT results are very sensitive on the choice of the functional and a validation of the results should be always done. On the basis of these computations the spectroscopic visible absorption bands of both compounds were assigned to a pi-->pi* transition in the thiohydroxamic acid functionality. In chapter 5 the mechanism of the thermally and the photochemically induced N,O homolysis in both compounds is unveiled. The near UV-induced N,O homolysis will start from the S2 state. The expected relaxation from the S2- to the S1-state and the dissociation process is expected to be very fast in the case of the thiazolethione compound. The potential surfaces of the pyridine compound in contrast point to a slower N,O bond dissociation. Due to the resulting faster dissociation process the excess energy which results from the photochemical activation is quenched only to small amounts. The maximal possible excess energy of the fragments is lower and a quenching is much more likely in the case of the pyridinethione compounds. This explaines the different reactivities of both compounds. For the also already successfully applied precursor system N-(alkoxy)-pyridineones the computed dissociation paths show courses that clearly predict a slow bond dissociation process. Chapter 6 deals with the tuning of the initial excitation wave length of the known pyridinethiones und thiazolethiones. In the first part the effects of substituents on the thiazolethione heterocycle was examined. The UV/vis spectra of 4 and 5 substituted thiazolethiones can be interpreted like the spectrum of the parent compound. The second part of chapter 6 deals with the identification of a substitution pattern on the pyridine heterocycle which induces a blue shift of the photo active band. The computations showed that electron rich and electron poor substituents result the same effects on the electronic excitation spectra. These substituent effects are additive, but the steric orientation of the substituents has to be taken into account. Chapter 7 describes a computer aided design of new alkoxyl radical precursors. Combining the advantages of both compounds the radical formation should be initiated by an irradiation with light at about 350 nm, and the amount of side products during the radical formation process should be small. To achieve this 18 test candidates were obtained by a systematic variation of the parent compound of the thiazolethione precursor. To identify the promising new precursor systems a screening of the lower electronic excitations of all resulting 18 systems was performed with TD-DFT. For promising systems the N,O or P,O dissociation paths, respectively, were analyzed according to the developed model. N-(methoxy)-azaphospholethione and N-(methoxy)-pyrrolethione seem to be the most promising candidates. The computations predict a strong absorption at about 350 nm respectively 320 nm. Due to the amounts of maximal excess energy and the shapes of the potential surfaces of the N,O bond dissociation paths their reactivity should resemble more the behavior of the pyridinethiones.
This thesis deals with the isolation and structural elucidation of bioactive naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids and related analogs. The mode of action of the antiplasmodial activity exhibited by the naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids was explored and compared to that of the antimalarial drug chloroquine. Furthermore, the phase 1 and 2 metabolism of dioncophyllines A and C and dioncopeltine A were investigated. In detail the following results have been obtained: • From the leaves of the recently discovered East African liana A. tanzaniensis six naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids were isolated. • The leaves of a botanical yet undescribed Ancistrocladus species, collected by Prof. Dr. V. Mudogo in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the habitat Yeteto near the town Ikela, were analyzed for naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids for the first time. The isolation work led to the first identification of an N,C-coupled naphthyldihydroisoquinoline alkaloid; ancistrocladinium B. Phytochemical investigation of the roots of the Congolese Ancistrocladus species (habitat Yeteto), , afforded five new derivatives of known naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, namely 5'-O-demethylhamatine, 5'-O-demethylhamatinine, 6-O-demethylancistroealaine A, 6,5'-O,O-didemethylancistroealaine A, and 5-epi-6-O-methylancistrobertsonine A, along with six known naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids. • The antiplasmodial activity guided purification of 60Co irradiated samples containing commercially available naphthylisoquinoline related substances, afforded the isolation of the irradiation products 3,4-dihydro-1-isoquinolinone, 3,4-dihydro-1-isoquinolineamine, and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,2-diazirino-isoquinoline. The compounds were found to be more active than the starting material, although only exhibiting weak antiplasmodial activity against P. falciparum. • The effect on the absorption spectrum of FPIX due to complex formation with the naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids dioncophyllines A and C, dioncopeltine A korupensamine A, and ancistrocladine was examined by a titration study. Job's plot analyses by UV-spectroscopy determined the stoichiometry for the complex formation of FPIX and naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids to be 2:1. Furthermore, the dissociation constants for the complexation with FPIX were determined for each of the naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids investigated. Dioncophylline C and dioncopeltine A were found to possess dissociation constants, which are comparable to the one reported for the antimalarial drug chloroquine. The ability of ESI to transfer noncovalent solution-phase assemblies intact into the gas phase, was conducted on solution mixtures of naphthylisoquinoline alkaloid and FPIX, as well as on mixtures of chloroquine and FPIX. The mass spectrometry analyses revealed several peaks, which corresponded to the complex formation of FPIX to the respective ligands investigated. The most interesting results obtained were the detection of peaks corresponding to the complex formation between a chelated dimer of FPIX and dioncophylline Cand of peaks corresponding to a double protonated tetramer of FPIX – consisting of two chelated -oxo dimers of FPIX – in complex formation with two molecules of chloroquine. • Two phase 1 metabolism products of dioncophylline A were identified. Coelution in combination with HPLC-MS/MS, NMR, and CD investigations assigned the major metabolic product as 5'-O-demethyldioncophylline A. The minor metabolic product was only present in small amounts, which disabled an unambiguous structural characterization of the compound. However, as deduced from the mass spectrometry analyses and exclusion of a possible metabolic oxidation product by coelution with authentic reference material, the metabolite should possess a 4-hydroxylated isoquinoline portion and is assumed to be represented by structure. Dioncophylline C and dioncopeltine A were found to be stable to phase 1 metabolism reactions caused by rat liver microsomes.
The functionalities of DNA and RNA are mainly determined by the various interactions between the pairing nucleobases. To understand the complex interplay of the various interactions model systems are needed in which the interstrand pairing is less restricted by the backbone. Such systems are peptide nucleo acids (PNA) in which the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA or RNA is replaced by a peptide backbone. Diederichsen et al. were able to synthesize a large number of systems with an alpha-alanyl backbone to which canonical and non-canonical nucleobases were attached (alpha-alanyl-PNA). These systems formed aggregates with various binding motifs which do not appear in DNA or RNA. Especially the unusual binding motifs would allow a deep insight into the complex interplay of the interactions between nucleobases but the small solubility of alpha-alanyl PNA oligomers hampers the experimental determination of the geometrical arrangement by X-Ray or NMR. Only the overall stability of the various aggregates could be determined by measurements of melting temperatures via UV spectroscopy. Since a detailed knowledge about the geometrical structure and bonding motifs are necessary to obtain insight into the interplay of the various interactions it is the goal of the present work to achieve such information with the help of theoretical approaches. Additionally we are interested in the effects which govern the trends in the stabilities of the systems. This task should be simpler than an investigation of the absolute stabilities since many contributions (e.g. entropic and dynamic effects) can be expected to be similar for similar systems. Consequently, such effects are less important for our goal. For the investigation of all experimentally tested alpha-alanyl-PNA oligomers it was essential to parameterize the noncanonical nucleobases since they were not implemented in the standard version of the Amber4.1 force field. This was achieved by adding the missing parameters to the Amber Force Field. The charges of each nucleobase were determined by the R.E.D program package. The investigation started with the construction of all possible pairing modes for alpha-alanyl-PNA dimer. It could be observed that certain pairing modes were not realizable due to the geometrical arrangement of the dimer and the restriction of the backbone. For other pairing modes a construction was possible, but due to the geometrical restrictions of the backbone the strain in the system is so high that they fall apart during a first geometry optimization. Stable systems were then simulated by various molecular dynamics (MD)-runs. Information about their geometrical arrangements for T=0 K were obtained from geometry optimizations which were started from various points of the MD-run. The resulting geometries were found to be virtually identical. Information about the interactions within a dimer at T=0 K were obtained from a two step procedure in which the effects connected with the nucleobases and the influence of the backbone are determined separately. It was performed for the optimized geometries. In a first step the backbone was removed and the resulting dangling bonds were saturated by methyl groups. The total interaction energy between the nucleobases can now be estimated by the difference between the energy of the complete system and the sum of the energies of the single nucleobases computed at the geometries they take in the whole system. According to the carried out investigation and the resulting correlation of the melting temperature with the calculated stabilization energies the presented method seems to represent a reliable tool for the description of the PNA systems. Despite this success additional experimental verifications of our method are necessary to ensure its applicability. Such verifications could be based on geometrical information obtained via X-Ray or NMR investigations. More detailed data about entropic an enthalpic contribution to the stability of the various complexes would also be very helpful to verify and improve our approach. Such information could be either obtained from a careful analysis of shape of the melting temperature curve or from microcalorimetric investigations. If such tests confirm our predictions the approach could be extended and applied to neighboring fields as for examples beta-alanyl-PNA, DNA or RNA systems with unusual nucleobases. Such information is also necessary to extend our approach in a way that dynamic and/or entropic effects are also taken into account.
As a traditional industrial pigment, perylene bisimide (PBI) dyes have found wide-spread applications. In addition, PBI dyes have been considered as versatile and promising functional materials for organic-based electronic and optic devices, such as transistors and solar cells. For these novel demands, the control of self-organization of this type of dye and the investigation of the relationship between the supramolecular structure and the relevant optical and electronic properties is of great importance. The objective of this thesis focuses on gaining a better understanding of structural and functional properties of pi-stacks based on self-assembling PBIs. Studies include the synthesis and characterization of new functional PBI dyes, their aggregation in solution, in liquid crystalline state and on surfaces, and their fluorescence and charge transport properties. An overview of the formation, thermodynamics and structures of pi-stacks of functional pi- conjugated molecules in solution and in liquid crystalline phases is given in Chapter 2. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with the pi-pi aggregates of new, highly fluorescent PBIs without core-substituents. In Chapter 3, the self-assembly of a PBI with tridodecylphenyl substituents at imide N atoms both in solution and condensed phase has been studied in great detail. In condensed state, the dye exhibits a hexagonal columnar liquid crystalline (LC) phase as confirmed by DSC, OPM and X-ray diffraction analysis. The columnar stacking of this dye has been further confirmed by atomic force microscopy (AFM) where single columns could be well resolved The charge transport properties this dye have been investigated by pulse radiolysis-time resolved microwave conductivity (PR-TRMC) measurements. To shed more light on the nature of the pi-pi interaction of the unsubstituted PBIs, solvent depend aggregation properties have been investigated in Chapter 4. The studies are further extended from core-unsubstituted PBIs to core-substituted ones (Chapter 5 and 6). In Chapter 5, a series of highly soluble and fluorescent core-twisted PBIs that bear the same trialkylphenyl groups at the imide positions but different bay-substituents and were synthesized. These compounds are characterized by distortions of the perylene planes with dihedral angles in the range of 15-37° according to crystallographic data and molecular modeling studies. In contrast to the extended oligomeric aggregates formed for planar unsubstituted PBIs, this family of dyes formed discrete pi-pi-stacked dimers in apolar methylcyclohexane as concentration-dependent UV/Vis measurements and VPO analysis revealed. The Gibbs free energy of dimerization can be correlated with the twist angles of the dyes linearly. In condensed state, several of these PBIs form luminescent rectangular or hexagonal columnar liquid crystalline phases with low isotropization temperatures. The core-twisting effect on semiconducting properties has been examined in Chapter 6. In this chapter, a comparative study of the electrochemical and the charge transport properties of a series of non-substituted and chlorine-functionalized PBIs was performed. While Chapters 3-6 focus on one-component dye systems, Chapter 7 explored the possibility of a supramolecular engineering of co-aggregates formed by hydrogen-bonded 2:1 and 1:1 complex of oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)s (OPVs) and PBIs. Covalently linked donor-acceptor dye arrays have been prepared for comparison. Concentration and temperature-dependent UV/Vis spectroscopy revealed all hydrogen-bonded and covalent systems form well-ordered J-type aggregates in methylcyclohexane. With these hydrogen-bonded OPV-PBI complexes, fibers containing p-type and n-type molecules can be prepared on the nano-scale (1-20 nm). For the 2:1 OPV-PBI hydrogenbonded arrays hierarchically assembled chiral superstructures consisting of left-handed helical pi-pi co-aggregates (CD spectroscopy) of the two dyes that further assemble into right-handed nanometer-scale supercoils in the solid state (AFM study) have been observed. All of these well-defined OPV-PBI assemblies presented here exhibit photoinduced electron transfer on sub-ps timescale, while the electron recombination differs for different systems.Thus, it was suggested that such assemblies of p- and n-type semiconductors might serve as valuable nanoscopic functional units for organic electronics.
Electroactive Conjugated Polymers as Charge-Transport Materials for Optoelectronic Thin-Film Devices
(2005)
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.
The one electron oxidation potential of ten TAAs with all permutations of Cl , OMe- and Me-substituents in the three p-positions were determined by CV. The half wave potential of the first oxidation wave correlates linearly with the number of Cl- and OMe-substituents. AM1-CISD derived values of the absorption energies are in good agreement with the experiments but differ strongly for the oscillator strengths as well as for neutral compounds and their corresponding mono radical cations. The small solvent dependence of the experimental UV/Vis spectra in CH2Cl2 and MeCN reflects a minor charge transfer character of the electronic transitions. The UV/Vis/NIR spectra of the series of TAAs and their corresponding radical cations and the AM1 computations reveal that even small substituents may lead to strong symmetry breaking and to a modified electronic structure. The spectroscopic properties of a series of four bis-TAA donor-bridge-donor X-B-X dimers, composed of two asymmetric TAA chromophores (monomers) were investigated. UV/vis-, fluorescence and transient absorption spectra were recorded and compared with those of the corresponding X-B monomers. The excited states of the dimers are described as MV states which show, depending on the chemical nature of the bridge, a varying amount of interactions. It was found that superradiant emission only proceeds in the case of weak and medium coupling. Whether the first excited state potential energy surface of the dimers is a single minimum or a double minimum potential depends on the solvent polarity and the electronic coupling. In the latter case, the dimer relaxes in a symmetry broken CT state. The [2.2]paracyclophane bridged dimer is an example for a weakly coupled system, because the spectroscopic behavior is very similar to the corresponding p xylene monomer. In contrast, anthracene as well as p-xylene bridges mediate a stronger coupling and reveal a significant cooperative influence on the optical properties. A series of [2.2]paracylophane bridged bis-TAA MV radical cations X-B-X+ were analyzed by a GMH three-level model which takes two transitions into account: the IV-CT band and the bridge band. From the GMH analysis, one can conclude that the [2.2]paracyclophane moiety is not the limiting factor which governs the intramolecular charge transfer. The electronic interactions are of course smaller than direct conjugation but from the order of magnitude of the couplings of the [2.2]paracyclophane MV species it can be assumed that this bridge is able to mediate significant through-space and through-bond interactions. From the exponential dependence of the electronic coupling V between the two TAA localized states on the distance r between the two redox centers, it was inferred that the HT proceeds via superexchange mechanism. The analysis reveals that even significantly longer conjugated bridges should still mediate significant electronic interactions, because the decay constant of a series of conjugated MV species is small. The absorption properties of a series of bis-TAA-[2.2]paracyclophane dications X+-B-X+ were presented. The localized and the CT transitions of these dications are explained and analyzed by an exciton coupling model which also considers the photophysical properties of the monomeric TAA radical cations. Together with AM1-CISD calculated transition moments, experimental transition moments and transition energies of the bis-TAA dications were used to calculate electronic couplings by a GMH approach. These couplings are a measure for interactions of the excited MV CT states. The modification of the diabatic states reveals similarities of the GMH three-level model and the exciton coupling model. Comparison of the two models shows that the transition moment between the excited mixed-valence states of the dimer equals the dipole moment difference of the ground and the excited bridge state of the corresponding monomer. Thianthrenophane (1) has a cavity which offers enough room to potentially enable endohedral coordination to small ions or molecules. For the complexation of silver(I) perchlorate, the complex stability constants of thianthrenophane logK1=5.45 and of thianthrene logK2=9.16 were determined by UV/Vis titration. Single competition transport experiments with ten metal salts demonstrate a very high selectivity of thianthrenophane as a carrier for silver(I) and a distinctly higher transport rate compared to carriers such as thianthrene and 14-ane-S4. Although the X-ray crystal structure analysis of the polymeric [Ag(1)]ClO4 shows an exohedral coordination to silver(I), the formation of an endohedral [Ag(1)]+ complex is suggested to be the explanation for the unusual carrier selectivity of silver(I) by 1 in bulk liquid membrane.