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Synthesis and application of trifluoroethoxy-substituted phthalocyanines and subphthalocyanines

  • Satoru Mori and
  • Norio Shibata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2273–2296, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.224

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  • compared with mononuclear phthalocyanines by chemically modifying each unit unsymmetrically caused by an electronic interaction between each unit [68]. In addition, since it is possible to separate charges in dimer-type phthalocyanines, they are expected to be applied to new electron or energy transfer
  • for the application in functional dyes with higher performance and in new industrial fields. An interesting example involves investigations on energy transfer between the phthalocyanine and the fullerene [101]. Normally, phthalocyanine plays the role as a donor type molecule in the field of organic
  • semiconductors [102]. For example, a hybrid compound consisting of phthalocyanine and fullerene 20a causes the transfer of energy from the phthalocyanine unit to the fullerene unit when irradiated by light (Figure 6) [103][104]. However, such energy transfer does not occur in the hybrid of TFEO-ZnPc and
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Published 27 Oct 2017

One-pot multistep mechanochemical synthesis of fluorinated pyrazolones

  • Joseph L. Howard,
  • William Nicholson,
  • Yerbol Sagatov and
  • Duncan L. Browne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1950–1956, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.189

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  • addition of a grinding auxiliary could play several roles. We propose that the key benefits are related to improved mixing, and aiding in energy transfer, specifically in mechanochemical reactions where the reaction mixture could be described as a gum, paste or liquid. Notably, the comparable reaction
  • difference between the two steps is the physical state of the reactants. For the first step (Table 1), both reagents are liquids, and a grinding auxiliary was required to aid mixing and energy transfer. However, for the second step (Table 2), the reagents are solids, and the presence of a grinding agent
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Published 14 Sep 2017

Influence of the milling parameters on the nucleophilic substitution reaction of activated β-cyclodextrins

  • László Jicsinszky,
  • Kata Tuza,
  • Giancarlo Cravotto,
  • Andrea Porcheddu,
  • Francesco Delogu and
  • Evelina Colacino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1893–1899, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.184

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  • tentatively related to the effectiveness of energy transfer, which can be expected to increase as the volume occupied by balls inside the reactor increases, thus allowing milling conditions to approach frictional regimes. In the attempt of clarifying the role of the volume fraction occupied by balls inside
  • general less effective in terms of energy transfer as compared to steel. This was confirmed in the case of TU (Figure 3a and Supporting Information File 1, Table S1 entries 21 vs. 23), while milling times did not considerably change as expected [17] in the case of NaN3 (Figure 3a and Supporting
  • the hydrolysis of the starting material. Moreover, mechanochemical activation allowed solve one of the major problems for cyclodextrin derivatization in solution. This is usually related to the very different solubilities of the reagents, thus requiring energy transfer by heating to induce reactions
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Published 07 Sep 2017

Glyco-gold nanoparticles: synthesis and applications

  • Federica Compostella,
  • Olimpia Pitirollo,
  • Alessandro Silvestri and
  • Laura Polito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1008–1021, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.100

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  • -modified β-galactose derivative was used to coat 10 nm AuNPs and mixed with amino-terminated quantum dots (CdTe, QD). As a consequence of the strong hydrogen bonds among QD amines and hydroxy groups of galactose, a complex of QD-AuNPs occurred as confirmed by using fluorescence resonance energy transfer
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Published 24 May 2017

Energy down converting organic fluorophore functionalized mesoporous silica hybrids for monolith-coated light emitting diodes

  • Markus Börgardts and
  • Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 768–778, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.76

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  • (Figure 1a). Neglecting energy transfer between the luminophores superposition of the emission spectra of the three dyes covers the whole range of the visible region (400–800 nm) (Figure 1b). The three dyes were additionally analyzed with respect to their CIE chromaticity coordinates, i.e., their
  • causes a drop of quantum yields, presumably due to self-quenching effects. Based on the assumption that energy transfer typically occurs at distances of less than 10 nm between two dye molecules, self-quenching should be observed if more than one molecule is found in an area of 10 × 10 nm [29]. If dye
  • molecules to the silica matrix, intermolecular energy transfer causing losses in quantum yield can be expected at higher dye loadings. Likewise, for the perylene and benzofurazane-functionalized hybrid materials 9@MCM-3 and 10@MCM-6 similar dye loadings in the lower μmol·g−1 range were ascertained for
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Published 25 Apr 2017

Novel β-cyclodextrin–eosin conjugates

  • Gábor Benkovics,
  • Damien Afonso,
  • András Darcsi,
  • Szabolcs Béni,
  • Sabrina Conoci,
  • Éva Fenyvesi,
  • Lajos Szente,
  • Milo Malanga and
  • Salvatore Sortino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 543–551, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.52

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  • tentatively be attributed to populations of fluorophores probably interacting in a different way with the CD cavity. As outlined in the introduction, singlet oxygen, 1O2, is the key species involved in PDT and it is generated by energy transfer from the excited triplet state of a PS and the nearby molecular
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Published 15 Mar 2017

A postsynthetically 2’-“clickable” uridine with arabino configuration and its application for fluorescent labeling and imaging of DNA

  • Heidi-Kristin Walter,
  • Bettina Olshausen,
  • Ute Schepers and
  • Hans-Achim Wagenknecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 127–137, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.16

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  • by blue and green emitting cyanine-styryl dyes were improved due to the arabino-configured anchor. These oligonucleotides were used as energy transfer donors in hybrids with oligonucleotides modified with acceptor dyes that emit in the yellow-red range. These combinations give energy transfer pairs
  • DNA polymerases in primer extension experiments and PCR [4][16]. To develop fluorescently labelled oligonucleotides that undergo energy transfer reactions [17] we recently applied 2’-propargyl-modified uridine 1 as DNA building block (Scheme 1) [15][18][19]. A simple look on the three-dimensional
  • developed and synthesized the 2’-propargyl-modified arabino-configured uridine analog 2, incorporated it into DNA by automated phosphoramidite chemistry, “clicked” it to a variety of our recently established, photostable cyanine-styryl dyes and probed the fluorescence and energy transfer properties by
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Published 20 Jan 2017

Inhibition of peptide aggregation by means of enzymatic phosphorylation

  • Kristin Folmert,
  • Malgorzata Broncel,
  • Hans v. Berlepsch,
  • Christopher H. Ullrich,
  • Mary-Ann Siegert and
  • Beate Koksch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2462–2470, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.240

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  • influence the conformational populations of proteins. In nature, this information is used for signal transduction or energy transfer, but has also been shown to play an important role in many diseases like tauopathies or diabetes. With the goal of determining the effect of phosphorylation on amyloid fibril
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Published 18 Nov 2016

Biradical vs singlet oxygen photogeneration in suprofen–cholesterol systems

  • Fabrizio Palumbo,
  • Francisco Bosca,
  • Isabel M. Morera,
  • Inmaculada Andreu and
  • Miguel A. Miranda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1196–1202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.115

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  • light. The latter involves energy transfer from the photosensitizer triplet excited state to ground state molecular oxygen [5][6]. Ketoprofen (KP) is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that contains the benzophenone (BZP, Figure 1) chromophore and displays a n,π triplet excited state [7][8][9
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Published 14 Jun 2016

Synthesis of a deuterated probe for the confocal Raman microscopy imaging of squalenoyl nanomedicines

  • Eric Buchy,
  • Branko Vukosavljevic,
  • Maike Windbergs,
  • Dunja Sobot,
  • Camille Dejean,
  • Simona Mura,
  • Patrick Couvreur and
  • Didier Desmaële

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1127–1135, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.109

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  • fluorochrome in LDC nanoparticles can be used as far as the colloidal stability of the nanocarrier is preserved, but cannot address the intracellular tracking of the loaded drug after carrier disassembling. Thus, specific tools such as fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and fluorescence quenching
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Published 06 Jun 2016

Muraymycin nucleoside-peptide antibiotics: uridine-derived natural products as lead structures for the development of novel antibacterial agents

  • Daniel Wiegmann,
  • Stefan Koppermann,
  • Marius Wirth,
  • Giuliana Niro,
  • Kristin Leyerer and
  • Christian Ducho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 769–795, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.77

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  • are three different assays available that provide such inhibition data: i) a fluorescence-based and ii) a radioactivity-based assay as well as iii) a relatively new Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based method. The fluorescence-based assay was developed by Bugg et al. [79][80] and uses a
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Published 22 Apr 2016

Enabling technologies and green processes in cyclodextrin chemistry

  • Giancarlo Cravotto,
  • Marina Caporaso,
  • Laszlo Jicsinszky and
  • Katia Martina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 278–294, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.30

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  • derivatives by dissolving C60 in the amorphous powder obtained from the ball milled reactants and β-CD [90]. Another example that uses the energy transfer of ball milling is the preparation of MnBi/Fe-Co core/shell structured composites. However, no pure chemical reaction is used to prepare rare-earth free
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Published 15 Feb 2016

Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of β-triazoloporphyrin–xanthone dyads

  • Dileep Kumar Singh and
  • Mahendra Nath

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1434–1440, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.155

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  • porphyrins with diverse functionalities such as quinolone [19], ferrocene [20], carbohydrate [21] and fullerene [22] through a copper(I)-catalyzed Huisgen–Sharpless–Meldal 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction [23][24]. Some of these triazolo-bridged porphyrin dyads have shown an efficient intramolecular energy
  • transfer between the porphyrin part and the attached subunit. Moreover, the 1,4-disubstituted triazoles are found to be very useful for various applications including modification of cell surfaces [25], synthesis of new glycoproteins [26], specific labeling of virus particles [27] and synthesis of
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Published 17 Aug 2015

Selected synthetic strategies to cyclophanes

  • Sambasivarao Kotha,
  • Mukesh E. Shirbhate and
  • Gopalkrushna T. Waghule

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1274–1331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.142

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Published 29 Jul 2015

A comparative study of the interactions of cationic hetarenes with quadruplex-DNA forming oligonucleotide sequences of the insulin-linked polymorphic region (ILPR)

  • Darinka Dzubiel,
  • Heiko Ihmels,
  • Mohamed M. A. Mahmoud and
  • Laura Thomas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2963–2974, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.314

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  • fluorimetric monitoring of the temperature-dependent Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between the dyes [29]. In sodium cacodylate buffer (10 mM Na+, 10 mM K+, 90 mM Li+) the melting curve of the DNA has a weak transition at 50 °C and a more pronounced one at Tm = 71.0 °C (Figure 4). The results of the
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Published 11 Dec 2014

Come-back of phenanthridine and phenanthridinium derivatives in the 21st century

  • Lidija-Marija Tumir,
  • Marijana Radić Stojković and
  • Ivo Piantanida

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2930–2954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.312

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  • bromide was introduced as a part of a heterogenic two-chromophore system, to take advantage of very efficient FRET energy transfer process (77%) from fluorescein to the RNA-intercalated phenanthridinium fluorophore (Figure 8, left) [83]. The resulting fluorescent dye exhibited improved ds-RNA-marker
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Published 10 Dec 2014

Synthesis and properties of novel star-shaped oligofluorene conjugated systems with BODIPY cores

  • Clara Orofino-Pena,
  • Diego Cortizo-Lacalle,
  • Joseph Cameron,
  • Muhammad T. Sajjad,
  • Pavlos P. Manousiadis,
  • Neil J. Findlay,
  • Alexander L. Kanibolotsky,
  • Dimali Amarasinghe,
  • Peter J. Skabara,
  • Tell Tuttle,
  • Graham A. Turnbull and
  • Ifor D. W. Samuel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2704–2714, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.285

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  • lasing applications. Previously, we have designed star-shaped systems featuring energy transfer by incorporating acceptor chromophore units either within the arms [23], or in the core [24], of parent blue-emissive star-shaped oligofluorene systems. This strategy provides the ability to tune emission and
  • T-Bn compounds and 660 nm for the Y-Bn series. The emission originates from the BODIPY core which is an indication of an efficient energy transfer observed in these conjugated systems from the fluorene components to the core. A Stokes shift of around 50 nm was observed in both series, corresponding
  • to 1230 cm−1 for Y-Bn and 1560 cm−1 for T-Bn. If one considers the efficient energy transfer from the oligofluorene arms to the BODIPY core, the separation between absorption and emission overall becomes much higher and the materials can therefore be used as efficient down-converters from UV to the
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Published 19 Nov 2014

Synthesis and optical properties of pyrrolidinyl peptide nucleic acid carrying a clicked Nile red label

  • Nattawut Yotapan,
  • Chayan Charoenpakdee,
  • Pawinee Wathanathavorn,
  • Boonsong Ditmangklo,
  • Hans-Achim Wagenknecht and
  • Tirayut Vilaivan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2166–2174, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.224

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  • biomolecular interactions [1][2][3]. Traditionally, the biological macromolecules are labeled with two or more dyes which can interact in a conformation/distant-dependent manner via Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) [4][5][6]. Alternatively, the FRET pairs can be replaced by an environmentally sensitive
  • ] or a backbone-tethered label [18][19]. However, in most cases the formation of DNA duplexes does not yield significant fluorescence changes in the Nile red, unless it is used in combination with another dye such as pyrene to form an energy transfer pair [20][21]. A related phenoxazine dye – Nile blue
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Published 11 Sep 2014

Multichromophoric sugar for fluorescence photoswitching

  • Stéphane Maisonneuve,
  • Rémi Métivier,
  • Pei Yu,
  • Keitaro Nakatani and
  • Juan Xie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1471–1481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.151

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  • ) conversion extent of the DAE moiety. A nearly 100% Förster-type resonance energy transfer (FRET) from all three DCM moieties to a single DAE (in its CF) moiety was achieved. Upon visible irradiation, the initial fluorescence intensity was recovered. The observed photoswiching is reversible, with excellent
  • photo resistance. Keywords: click chemistry; energy transfer; fluorophore; monosaccharide; photochromism; Introduction The development of functional nanomaterials is nowadays a very attractive field of fundamental and applied research. The chemical functions at the molecular level yield properties
  • compound fit well together, the fluorescence can be switched ON and OFF: quenching of the fluorescence through a Förster-type resonance energy transfer (FRET) process from the former to the latter would occur, when the photochromic moiety is in the colored form (state B, Figure 1). At the opposite, in the
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Published 30 Jun 2014

Automated solid-phase peptide synthesis to obtain therapeutic peptides

  • Veronika Mäde,
  • Sylvia Els-Heindl and
  • Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1197–1212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.118

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  • chain of Dpr (α,β-diaminopropionic acid). These fluorescently labeled conjugates allowed FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) measurements to investigate conformational features of the peptides [132]. With respect to the great potential of NPY ligands as pharmaceuticals for various indications
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Published 22 May 2014

Studies on the photodegradation of red, green and blue phosphorescent OLED emitters

  • Susanna Schmidbauer,
  • Andreas Hohenleutner and
  • Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2088–2096, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.245

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  • atmospheric conditions than under inert atmosphere and show a further increase when performed in benzene-d6. Iridium complexes have been proposed to not only undergo energy transfer to dioxygen but also being capable of electron transfer leading to the formation of superoxide anions. Especially for the blue
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Published 11 Oct 2013

Synthesis, photophysical and electrochemical characterization of terpyridine-functionalized dendritic oligothiophenes and their Ru(II) complexes

  • Amaresh Mishra,
  • Elena Mena-Osteritz and
  • Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 866–876, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.100

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  • stabilities, and tunability of the excited-state energies [9]. Additionally, they can be employed as energy donor or acceptor units in electronic energy transfer processes [10]. In particular, ruthenium(II) polypyridine complexes have been extensively studied and represent an area of widespread interest that
  • past years, a large number of luminescent dendrimers based on polynuclear transition-metal complexes have been developed as promising materials for the study of unidirectional energy transfer and multielectron-transfer processes as well as for light-harvesting applications [19]. Among the polypyridine
  • nm, which corresponds to the π–π* transition of the ligand. Interestingly, the results show effective quenching of the ligand-based emission and bands centered at the characteristic emission maxima of complexes 1 and 2, indicating efficient photoinduced energy transfer from the oligothiophene to the
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Amino-substituted diazocines as pincer-type photochromic switches

  • Hanno Sell,
  • Christian Näther and
  • Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1–7, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.1

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  • rings can rotate with a low activation barrier, and isomerization of the trans form can occur in two different directions, forming two different isomers (enantiomers in the parent system) [4]. Power transmission to neighbouring molecules is inefficient because of energy transfer to internal
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Published 02 Jan 2013

Control over molecular motion using the cistrans photoisomerization of the azo group

  • Estíbaliz Merino and
  • María Ribagorda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1071–1090, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.119

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  • (azo-15) may be useful as a molecular switch, because the photoisomerization of azo-fullerene 14 leads to only 8% of the cis-isomer. Although, the quantum yield obtained for cis-14 is not very high, this proportion is significant, given the speed with which energy transfer to the fullerene unit occurs
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Published 12 Jul 2012

Sexithiophenes as efficient luminescence quenchers of quantum dots

  • Christopher R. Mason,
  • Yang Li,
  • Paul O’Brien,
  • Neil J. Findlay and
  • Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1722–1731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.202

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  • not be a result of Förster energy transfer. The effect of each of the corresponding sexithiophenes with or without a Lewis base group (1 or 2) was then studied by preparing separate stock solutions of quantum dots and sexithiophenes 1b or 2b, of known concentration. A fixed amount of quantum dot
  • general trend observed was a decrease in the photoluminescence intensity with increasing sexithiophene concentration, irrespective of the presence (1b) or absence (2b) of a Lewis base (the anomaly at low concentrations of sexithiophenes is explained below). Since energy transfer can be excluded, it may be
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