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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 10, Issue 64, Pages 39049-39059Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0ra05802e
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
- Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (SECyT)
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnica (ANPCyT)
- CONICET
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Hydroxyphenyl-azoles are among the most popular ESIPT (Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer) scaffolds and as such, they have been thoroughly studied. Nevertheless, some aspects regarding the interplay between the emissive properties of these fluorophores and the size of their pi-conjugated framework remain controversial. Previous studies have demonstrated that benzannulation of 2 '-hydroxyphenyl-oxazole at the phenol group of the molecule can lead to either red- or blue-shifted fluorescence emission, depending on the site where it occurs. In this report, benzannulation at the heterocyclic unit (the oxazole site) is analysed in order to get the whole picture. The extension of pi-conjugation does not significantly affect the ESIPT emission wavelength, but it leads instead to higher energy barriers for proton transfer in the first excited singlet state, as a consequence of dramatic changes in the charge transfer character of excitation caused by successive benzannulation. Theoretical calculations revealed an interesting connection between intramolecular charge transfer and excited-state aromaticity in the S-1 state. The theoretical approach presented herein allows the behaviour of hydroxyphenyl-oxazoles in the excited state to be rationalized and, more generally, a deeper understanding of the factors governing the ESIPT process to be obtained, a crucial point in the design of new and efficient fluorophores.
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