Abstract
Expanded porphyrins have been attracting increasing attention owing to their unique optical and electrochemical properties as well as switchable aromaticity. Toward material applications, regioselective functionalization of the expanded porphyrins at their periphery is indeed challenging due to the presence of multiple reactive sites. Herein, a set of regioselective halogenated isomers (L5-Br-A/B/C) of neo-confused isosmaragdyrin (L5) are synthesized by a combination of the halogenation reaction of L5 and sequential macrocycle-to-macrocycle transformation reactions of its halogenated isomers. On this basis, the regioselectively functionalized isosmaragdyrins are utilized as building blocks for constructing multichromophoric porphyrinoids, specifically, heterodyads L5-ZnP-A/B/C, in which a common zinc porphyrin is linked at three different pyrrolic positions of isosmaragdyrins, respectively, by Sonogashira coupling reactions. The highly efficient energy cascade from porphyrin to isosmaragdyrin is elucidated using steady-state/time-resolved spectroscopies and theoretical calculations. Notably, the energy transfer processes from the porphyrin to the isosmaragdyrin moieties as well as the excitation energy transfer rates in L5-ZnP-A/B/C are highly dependent on the linking sites by through-bond and Förster-type resonance energy transfer mechanisms. The site-selective functionalization and subsequent construction of a set of heterodyads of the expanded porphyrinoid would provide opportunities for developing new materials for optoelectronic applications.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5294-5302 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
Volume | 141 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 Apr 3 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work at ECUST was financially supported by Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (Grant No. 2018SHZDZX03) and the international cooperation program of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (17520750100), NSFC (21772041, 21702062 21811530005), the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar, GZ2016006) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning, Shanghai Pujiang Program (17PJ1401700), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK1616004, 222201717003), and Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (B160170). Part of the work in Kyushu was supported by Grants-in-Aid (JP15K13646 to H.F., JP16K05700 and JP17H05377 to M.I.) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The work at Yonsei was supported by the Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Program funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future, Korea (2013K1A1A2A02050183). The authors thank Research Center of Analysis and Test of East China University of Science and Technology for the help on the characterization.
Funding Information:
This work at ECUST was financially supported by Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (Grant No. 2018SHZDZX03) and the international cooperation program of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (17520750100), NSFC (21772041, 21702062, 21811530005), the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar, GZ2016006) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning, Shanghai Pujiang Program (17PJ1401700), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK1616004, 222201717003), and Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (B160170). Part of the work in Kyushu was supported by Grants-in-Aid (JP15K13646 to H.F., JP16K05700 and JP17H05377 to M.I.) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The work at Yonsei was supported by the Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Program funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future, Korea (2013K1A1A2A02050183). The authors thank Research Center of Analysis and Test of East China University of Science and Technology for the help on the characterization.
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Catalysis
- Chemistry(all)
- Biochemistry
- Colloid and Surface Chemistry