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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 787-795Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201901740
Keywords
Self-assembly; Energy transfer; phosphorescence; boronic acid; chemosensor
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- JSPS KAKENHI [19H02704]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19H02704] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We found that boronate particles (BP), as a self-assembled system prepared by sequential dehydration of benzene-1,4-diboronic acid with pentaerythritol, showed greenish room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP). This emission was observed in both solid and dispersion state in water. To understand the RTP properties, X-ray crystallographic analysis, and density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT at M06-2X/6-31G(d,p) level were performed using 3,9-dibenzo-2,4,8,10-tetraoxa-3,9-diboraspiro[5.5]undecane (1) as a model compound. Our interest in functionalizing the RTP-active particles led us to graft Rhodamine B onto their surface. The resulting system emitted a dual afterglow via a Forster-type resonance energy transfer process from the BP in the excited triplet state to Rhodamine B acting as an acceptor fluorophore. This emission behavior was used for ratiometric afterglow sensing of water content in THF with a detection limit of 0.28 %, indicating that this study could pave the way for a new strategy for developing color-variable afterglow chemosensors for various analytes.
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