1. Construction of aggregation-induced emission photosensitizers through host-guest interactions for photooxidation reaction and light-harvesting.
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Zhang, Rong-Zhen, Liu, Hui, Xin, Cheng-Long, Han, Ning, Ma, Chao-Qun, Yu, Shengsheng, Wang, Yue-Bo, and Xing, Ling-Bao
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CUCURBITURIL , *SUPRAMOLECULAR polymers , *PHOTOOXIDATION , *REACTIVE oxygen species , *CYANINES , *ENERGY transfer , *AQUEOUS solutions - Abstract
[Display omitted] In the present work, we have designed and synthesized a triphenylamine modified cyanophenylenevinylene derivative (TPCI), which can self-assembly with cucurbit[6]uril (CB[6]) and cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) through host-guest interactions to form supramolecular complexes (TPCI-CB[6]) and supramolecular polymers (TPCI-CB[8]) in the aqueous solution. The supramolecular assemblies of TPCI-CB[6] and TPCI-CB[8] not only exhibited high singlet oxygen (1O 2) production efficiency as photosensitizers, but also realized the application in the construction of artificial light-harvesting systems due to the excellent fluorescence properties in the aqueous solution. The production efficiency of 1O 2 has been effectively improved after the addition of CB[6] and CB[8] for TPCI, which were applied as efficient photosensitizers in the photooxidation reactions of thioanisole and its derivatives with the highest yield of 98% in the aqueous solution. The excellent fluorescence properties of TPCI-CB[6] and TPCI-CB[8] can be used as energy donors in artificial light-harvesting systems with energy acceptors sulforhodamine 101 (SR101) and cyanine dye 5 (Cy5), in which one-step energy transfer processes of TPCI-CB[6]+SR101 and TPCI-CB[8]+Cy5, and a two-step sequential energy transfer process of TPCI-CB[6]+SR101+Cy5 were constructed to simulate the natural photosynthesis system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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