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Photoinduced Electron Transfer Involving a Naphthalimide Chromophore in Switchable and Flexible [2]Rotaxanes.

Benoit ColassonAlberto CrediBarbara Ventura
Published in: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2019)
The interlocking of ring and axle molecular components in rotaxanes provides a way to combine chromophoric, electron-donor and electron-acceptor moieties in the same molecular entity, in order to reproduce the features of photosynthetic reaction centers. To this aim, the photoinduced electron transfer processes involving a 1,8-naphthalimide chromophore, embedded in several rotaxane-based dyads, were investigated by steady-state and time-resolved absorption and luminescence spectroscopic experiments in the 300 fs-10 ns time window. Different rotaxanes built around the dialkylammonium/ dibenzo[24]crown-8 ether supramolecular motif were designed and synthesized to decipher the relevance of key structural factors, such as the chemical deactivation of the ammonium-crown ether recognition, the presence of a secondary site for the ring along the axle, and the covalent functionalization of the macrocycle with a phenothiazine electron donor. Indeed, the conformational freedom of these compounds gives rise to a rich dynamic behavior induced by light and may provide opportunities for investigating and understanding phenomena that take place in complex (bio)molecular architectures.
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