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ArticleChemical science2019

Controlling the structure and photophysics of fluorophore dimers using multiple cucurbit[8]uril clampings.

Guanglu Wu, Youn Jue Bae, Magdalena Olesińska, Daniel Antón-García, István Szabó, Edina Rosta, Michael R Wasielewski, Oren A Scherman

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Article in Chemical science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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Guanglu WuMelville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1EW UK oas23@cam.ac.uk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9690-5992
Youn Jue BaeDepartment of Chemistry, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208-3113 USA.
Magdalena OlesińskaMelville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1EW UK oas23@cam.ac.uk.
Daniel Antón-GarcíaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1EW UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5466-2921
István SzabóDepartment of Chemistry, King's College London 7 Trinity Street London SE1 1DB UK.
Edina RostaDepartment of Chemistry, King's College London 7 Trinity Street London SE1 1DB UK.
Michael R WasielewskiDepartment of Chemistry, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208-3113 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2920-5440
Oren A SchermanMelville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1EW UK oas23@cam.ac.uk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8032-7166

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A modular strategy has been employed to develop a new class of fluorescent molecules, which generates discrete, dimeric stacked fluorophores upon complexation with multiple cucurbit[8]uril macrocycles. The multiple constraints result in a "static" complex (remaining as a single entity for more than 30 ms) and facilitate fluorophore coupling in the ground state, showing a significant bathochromic shift in absorption and emission. This modular design is surprisingly applicable and flexible and has been validated through an investigation of nine different fluorophore cores ranging in size, shape, and geometric variation of their clamping modules. All fluorescent dimers evaluated can be photo-excited to atypical excimer-like states with elongated excited lifetimes (up to 37 ns) and substantially high quantum yields (up to 1). This strategy offers a straightforward preparation of discrete fluorophore dimers, providing promising model systems with explicitly stable dimeric structures and tunable photophysical features, which can be utilized to study various intermolecular processes.

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