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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 75, Issue 9, Pages 3053-3068Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo100359q
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- Slovak Grant Agencies APVV [0259-07]
- Slovak Grant Agencies VEGA [1/4470/07]
- Comenius University [UK/176/2008]
- COMCHEM [11/1/2007]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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A series of novel heterocycle-based dyes with donor-pi-bridge-acceptor-pi-bridge donor (D-pi-A-pi-D) structural motif, where benzothiazole serves as an electron-withdrawing core, have been designed and synthesized via palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira and Suzuki-type cross-coupling reactions. All the target chromophores show strong one-photon and two-photon excited emission. The maximum two-photon absorption (TPA) cross sections delta(TPA) of the prepared derivatives bearing diphenylamino functionalities occur at wavelengths ranging from 760 to 800 nm and are as large as similar to 900-1100 GM. One- and two-photon absorption characteristics of the title dyes have also been investigated by using density functional theory (DFT) and the structure property relationships are discussed. The TPA cross sections calculated by means of quadratic response time-dependent DFT using the Coulomb-attenuated CAM-B3LYP functional support the experimentally observed trends within the series, as well as higher delta(TPA) values of the title compounds compared to those of analogous fluorene or carbazole-derived dyes. In contrast, the traditional B3LYP functional was not successful in predicting the observed trend of TPA cross sections for systems with different central cores. In general, structural modification of the pi-bridge composition by replacement of ethynylene (alkyne) with E-ethenylene (alkene) linkages and/or replacement of dialkylamino electron-donating edge substituents by diarylamino ones results in an increase of delta(TPA) values. The combination of large TPA cross sections and high emission quantum yields makes the title benzothiazole-based dyes attractive for applications involving two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF).
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