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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 77, Issue 10, Pages 4557-4565Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo3006107
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH) [SC1GM093830]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems [0855217] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The usefulness of a fiber optic technique for generating singlet oxygen and releasing the pheophorbide photosensitizer has been increased by the fluorination of the porous Vycor glass tip. Singlet oxygen emerges through the fiber tip with 669-nm light and oxygen, releasing the sensitizer molecules upon a [2 + 2] addition of singlet oxygen with the ethene spacer and scission of a dioxetane intermediate. Switching from a nonfluorinated to a fluorinated glass tip led to a clear reduction of the adsorbtive affinity of the departing sensitizer with improved release into homogeneous toluene solution and bovine tissue, but no difference was found in water since the sensitizer was insoluble. High surface coverage of the nonafluorohexylsilane enhanced the cleavage efficiency by 15% at the ethene site. The fluorosilane groups also caused crowding and seemed to reduce access of O-1(2) to the ethene site, which attenuated the total quenching rate constant k(T), although there was less wasted O-1(2) (from surface physical quenching) at the fluorosilane-coated than the native SiOH silica. The observations support a quenching mechanism that the replacement of the SiOH groups for the fluorosilane C-H and C-F groups enhanced the O-1(2) lifetime at the fiber tip interface due to less efficient electronic-to-vibronic energy transfer.
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