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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 12, Issue 27, Pages 17350-17361Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2ra02028a
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This article presents a method to retard the photodegradation of fluorophores by covalently attaching benzotriazole units. The results show that the dyes with covalently linked benzotriazole units have a higher resistance against degradation, mainly due to the preferential absorption of harmful UV light and involvement in nonradiative deactivation by benzotriazole units.
We developed a series of blue-emitting 1,8-naphthalimide dyes covalently attached to 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-2H-benzotriazoles that retard photodegradation of the fluorophore. The dyes displayed weaker fluorescence emissions than the parent 1.8-naphthalimide. Quantum chemical calculations suggested that the decreased fluorescence was caused by the nonradiative deactivation promoted through the excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) in benzotriazole components. The dyes' phosphorescences in a degassed solution at 77 K were more efficient than that of the parent 1.8-naphthalimide, indicating a possible deactivation pathway through intersystem crossing. PMMA films doped with these dyes showed higher resistance against photoaging than the film doped with an equimolar mixture of constituent 1.8-naphthalimide and the benzotriazole derivatives. Thus, the covalently linked benzotriazole units slow fluorophore degradation not only by preferential absorption of harmful UV light, which is found in the film with a simple mixture of two components, but also by the nonradiative deactivation involved in benzotriazole units.
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