TD-DFT study on the sensing mechanism of a fluorescent chemosensor for fluoride: Excited-state proton transfer
✍ Scribed by Guang-Yue Li; Guang-Jiu Zhao; Yu-Hui Liu; Ke-Li Han; Guo-Zhong He
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 555 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0192-8651
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
An excited‐state proton transfer (ESPT) process, induced by both intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen‐bonding interactions, is proposed to account for the fluorescence sensing mechanism of a fluoride chemosensor, phenyl‐1__H__‐anthra(1,2‐d)imidazole‐6,11‐dione. The time‐dependent density functional theory (TD‐DFT) method has been applied to investigate the different electronic states. The present theoretical study of this chemosensor, as well as its anion and fluoride complex, has been conducted with a view to monitoring its structural and photophysical properties. The proton of the chemosensor can shift to fluoride in the ground state but transfers from the proton donor (NH group) to a proton acceptor (neighboring carbonyl group) in the first singlet excited state. This may explain the observed red shifts in the fluorescence spectra in the relevant fluorescent sensing mechanism. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem, 2010