4.7 Article

Energy transfer followed by electron transfer (ETET) endows a TPE-NBD dyad with enhanced environmental sensitivity

Journal

CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
Volume 32, Issue 6, Pages 1937-1941

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.12.038

Keywords

Energy transfer; Electron transfer; Polarity probes; Environmental sensitivity

Funding

  1. Singapore University of Technology and Design [T1SRCI17126]
  2. A*STAR under its Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Program [A2083c0051]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21878286, 21908216]
  4. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics [DMTO201603, TMSR201601]

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Energy transfer and electron transfer are fundamental mechanisms in functional materials; The combination of energy and electron transfer processes in a single donor/acceptor system remains largely unexplored; The ETET process in molecular dyad TPE-NBD shows significant polarity sensitivities, potentially leading to functional materials with unprecedented properties.
Energy transfer and electron transfer are both fundamental mechanisms enabling numerous functional materials and applications. While most materials systems employ either energy transfer or electron transfer, the combined effect of energy and electron transfer processes in a single donor/acceptor system remains largely unexplored. Herein, we demonstrated the energy transfer followed by electron transfer (ETET) process in a molecular dyad TPE-NBD. Due to energy transfer, the fluorescence of TPE-NBD was greatly enhanced in non-polar solvents. In contrast, polar solvents activated subsequent electron transfer and markedly quenched the emission of TPE-NBD. Consequently, ETET endows TPE-NBD with significant polarity sensitivities. We expect that employing ETET could generate many functional materials with unprecedented properties, i.e., for single laser powered multicolor fluorescence imaging and sensing. (c) 2021 Chinese Chemical Society and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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