Spectroscopic and TD-DFT studies on the dual mode fluorescent chemosensors based on pyrene thiosemicarbazones, and its application as molecular-scale logic devices

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• 作者：Sabeel M. Basheer^a ; Anthony C. Willis^b ; Anandaram Sreekanth^a ; ^{sreekanth@nitt.edu}
• 关键词：Logic GATE ; PET ; fluorescence ; TD-DFT ; Thiosemicarbazone
• 刊名：Journal of Luminescence
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：183
• 期：Complete
• 页码：266-280
• 全文大小：3524 K
• 卷排序：183

文摘

Two newly synthesised pyrene based molecules are hereby reported as molecular switches. The absorption and emission response for receptors with and without F−, CN− and Cu2+ ions can mimic multiple logic gate such as AND, NOR, XNOR, OR, XOR, INHIBITION and TRANSFER gates. The fluorescence reversibility was checked with the alternative addition of fluoride and calcium ions, which can be explained by the “Read-Erase-Read-Write” logic loop. The calculated binding constant value show PyBTSC is better chemosensor than PyCTSC, and the binding affinity is in the order of Cu2+˃F-˃CN−. The detailed mechanism was investigated using DFT and TD-DFT calculations. The fluorescence quenching behaviour of receptor-F complex can be explained by PET mechanism along with ESPT process. The proton attached to the nitrogen which is adjacent to pyrene moiety is first make the hydrogen bond with fluoride ion at the excited state, which has confirmed by natural bond orbital (NBO) and potential energy surface (PES) analysis.