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Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages 1477-1486Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00423
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- National Taiwan University
- Chung Shan Medical University
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A series of new amino (NH)-type hydrogen-bonding (H-bonding) compounds comprising 2-(2'-aminophenyl)benzothiazole and its extensive derivatives were designed and synthesized. Unlike in the hydroxyl (OH)-type H-bonding systems, one of the amino hydrogens can be replaced with electron-donating/withdrawing groups. This, together with a versatile capability for modifying the parent moiety, makes feasible the comprehensive spectroscopy and dynamics studies of amino-type excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT), which was previously inaccessible in the hydroxyl-type ESIPT systems. Empirical correlations were observed among the hydrogen-bonding strength (the N-H bond distances and proton acidity), ESIPT kinetics, and thermodynamics, demonstrating a trend that the stronger N-H center dot center dot center dot N hydrogen bond leads to a faster ESIPT, as experimentally observed, and a more exergonic reaction thermodynamics. Accordingly, ESIPT reaction can be harnessed for the first time from a highly endergonic type (i.e., prohibition) toward equilibrium with a measurable ESIPT rate and then to the highly exergonic, ultrafast ESIPT reaction within the same series of amino-type intramolecular H-bond system.
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