Edamana Prasad

Bio: Edamana Prasad is an academic researcher from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dendrimer & Ether. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 100 publications receiving 2263 citations. Previous affiliations of Edamana Prasad include Texas Tech University & Indian Institutes of Technology.

Chapter 230 Samarium (II) based reductants

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the synthesis of Sm(II)-based reductants and their use in organic and inorganic synthesis. It focuses on the synthesis and utility of homoleptic Sm(II) reductants containing halide (I, Br, Cl) and cyclopentadienyl (Cp and Cp*) ligands and provides a brief description of amide (–N(SiMe 3 ) 2 ), alkoxide ligands, and pyrazolylborate ligands. The chapter also discusses the reactivity of Sm(II). A great deal of scientific effort has been directed towards understanding the reactivity and behavior of Sm(II) reductants containing iodide and pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligands. Therefore, the chapter focuses on these two classes of Sm(II)-based reductants. Novel approaches to enhancing the reactivity Sm(II)-based reductants are likely to lead to protocols that mimic the beneficial behavior of additives such as HMPA, but provide safer alternatives. As these advances are exploited and others are developed, the use of Sm(II) reagents are likely to continue and grow for the foreseeable future.

Host–Guest Chemistry between Perylene Diimide (PDI) Derivatives and 18‐Crown‐6: Enhancement in Luminescence Quantum Yield and Electrical Conductivity

Abstract: Perylene diimide (PDI) derivatives exhibit a high propensity for aggregation, which causes the aggregation-induced quenching of emission from the system. Host-guest chemistry is one of the best-known methods for preventing aggregation through the encapsulation of guest molecules. Herein we report the use of 18-crown-6 (18-C-6) as a host system to disaggregate suitably substituted PDI derivatives in methanol. 18-C-6 formed complexes with amino-substituted PDIs in methanol, which led to disaggregation and enhanced emission from the systems. Furthermore, the embedding of the PDI⋅18-C-6 complexes in poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) films generated remarkably high emission quantum yields (60-70 %) from the PDI derivatives. More importantly, the host-guest systems were tested for their ability to conduct electricity in PVA films. The electrical conductivities of the self-assembled systems in PVA were measured by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and the highest conductivity observed was 2.42×10(-5) S cm(-1) .

Long lived charge separated states in vinylbenzonitrile substituted derivatives of pyrene and anthracene

Abstract: The present study investigates the photophysical properties of two highly conjugated pyrene and anthracene derivatives viz ( E )-4-(2-(pyren-1-yl) vinyl) benzonitrile (PyCN) and ( E )-4-(2-(anthracen-9-yl) vinyl) benzonitrile (AnCN) in the presence and absence of electron donors such as N , N -diethylaniline (DEA) and N , N -diphenylamine (DPA). The observed rates of back electron transfer (BET) in the case of PyCN-DEA and AnCN-DEA are 1.3 × 10 5 and 4.8 × 10 4 s −1 , respectively, which are 3–4 orders of magnitude lower compared to the well-known pyrene–amine and anthracene–amine systems. Mechanistic investigations indicate that the donor-acceptor systems undergo different pathways in presence of tertiary and the secondary amine. The results indicate that the design strategy is highly efficient in reducing the rate of back electron transfer, which results in long lived charge-separated excited states.

Metal ion detection by naphthylthiourea derivatives through ‘turn-on’ excimer emission

Abstract: The detection of multiple heavy and transition metal (HTM) ions has been achieved through ‘turn-on’ excimer emission by three naphthylthiourea derivatives (L1, L2 and L3) in DMSO. Mechanistic studies suggest that the photoinduced electron transfer from the thiourea moiety to the naphthalene excimer is suppressed in the presence of Hg2+, Cu2+, Co2+ and Ag+, leading to enhanced emission intensity from the excimer. Interestingly, the ligands were able to detect all the above said HTM ions through ‘turn-on’ fluorescence, at micromolar concentrations of the analytes. While Hg2+ and Cu2+ ions were detected by all the ligands, Co2+ and Ag+ ions were detected only by L2 and L3, respectively. Furthermore, the detection of Hg2+ ions by L1 has been demonstrated in aqueous condition, wherein the fluorescence quantum yield showed the highest value (0.25 ± 0.01), compared to other metal–ligand complexes in DMSO. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report regarding multi-ion detection by thiourea based ligands through ‘turn-on’ excimer emission.

Principles Of Fluorescence Spectroscopy

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Self-Healing Hydrogels

Abstract: Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of interest in the development of hydrogel materials with tunable structural, mechanical, and rheological properties, which exhibit rapid and autonomous self-healing and self-recovery for utilization in a broad range of applications, from soft robotics to tissue engineering. However, self-healing hydrogels generally either possess mechanically robust or rapid self-healing properties but not both. Hence, the development of a mechanically robust hydrogel material with autonomous self-healing on the time scale of seconds is yet to be fully realized. Here, the current advances in the development of autonomous self-healing hydrogels are reviewed. Specifically, methods to test self-healing efficiencies and recoveries, mechanisms of autonomous self-healing, and mechanically robust hydrogels are presented. The trends indicate that hydrogels that self-heal better also achieve self-healing faster, as compared to gels that only partially self-heal. Recommendations to guide future development of self-healing hydrogels are offered and the potential relevance of self-healing hydrogels to the exciting research areas of 3D/4D printing, soft robotics, and assisted health technologies is highlighted.

Fluorescence and colorimetric chemosensors for fluoride-ion detection.

Abstract: Detection Ying Zhou,†,‡ Jun Feng Zhang, and Juyoung Yoon*,† †Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea ‡Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry for Natural Resource, School of Chemical Science and Technology, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, P. R. China College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, P. R. China

The dry-style antifogging properties of mosquito compound eyes and artificial analogues prepared by soft lithography: a superhydrophobic state with high adhesive force

Abstract: Fogging occurs when moisture condensation takes the form of accumulated droplets with diameters larger than 190 nm or half of the shortest wavelength (380 nm) of visible light. This problem may be effectively addressed by changing the affinity of a material’s surface for water, which can be accomplished via two approaches: i) the superhydrophilic approach, with a water contact angle (CA) less than 5°, and ii) the superhydrophobic approach, with a water CA greater than 150°, and extremely low CA hysteresis. To date, all techniques reported belong to the former category, as they are intended for applications in optical transparent coatings. A well-known example is the use of photocatalytic TiO2 nanoparticle coatings that become superhydrophilic under UV irradiation. Very recently, a capillary effect was skillfully adopted to achieve superhydrophilic properties by constructing 3D nanoporous structures from layer-by-layer assembled nanoparticles. The key to these two “wet”-style antifogging strategies is for micrometer-sized fog drops to rapidly spread into a uniform thin film, which can prevent light scattering and reflection from nucleated droplets. Optical transparency is not an intrinsic property of antifogging coatings even though recently developed antifogging coatings are almost transparent, and the transparency could be achieved by further tuning the nanoparticle size and film thickness. To our knowledge, the antifogging coatings may also be applied to many fields that do not require optical transparency, including, for example, paints for inhibiting swelling and peeling issues and metal surfaces for preventing corrosion. These types of issues, which are caused by adsorption of moisture, are hard to solve by the superhydrophilic approach because of its inherently “wet” nature. Thus, a “dry”-style antifogging strategy, which consists of a novel superhydrophobic technique that can prevent moisture or microscale fog drops from nucleating on a surface, is desired. Recent bionic researches have revealed that the self-cleaning ability of lotus leaves and the striking ability of a water-strider’s legs to walk on water can be attributed to the ideal superhydrophobicity of their surfaces, induced by special microand nanostructures. To date, the biomimetic fabrication of superhydrophobic microand/or nanostructures has attracted considerable interest, and these types of materials can be used for such applications as self-cleaning coatings and stain-resistant textiles. Although a superhydrophobic technique inspired by lotus leaves is expected to be able to solve such fogging problems because the water droplets can not remain on the surface, there are no reports of such antifogging coatings. Very recently, researchers from General Motors have reported that the surfaces of lotus leaves become wet with moisture because the size of the fog drops are at the microscale—so small that they can be easily trapped in the interspaces among micropapillae. Thus, lotuslike surface microstructures are unsuitable for superhydrophobic antifogging coatings, and a new inspiration from nature is desired for solving this problem. In this communication, we report a novel, biological, superhydrophobic antifogging strategy. It was found that the compound eyes of the mosquito C. pipiens possess ideal superhydrophobic properties that provide an effective protective mechanism for maintaining clear vision in a humid habitat. Our research indicates that this unique property is attributed to the smart design of elaborate microand nanostructures: hexagonally non-close-packed (ncp) nipples at the nanoscale prevent microscale fog drops from condensing on the ommatidia surface, and hexagonally close-packed (hcp) ommatidia at the microscale could efficiently prevent fog drops from being trapped in the voids between the ommatidia. We also fabricated artificial compound eyes by using soft lithography and investigated the effects of microand nanostructures on the surface hydrophobicity. These findings could be used to develop novel superhydrophobic antifogging coatings in the near future. It is known that mosquitoes possess excellent vision, which they exploit to locate various resources such as mates, hosts, and resting sites in a watery and dim habitat. To better understand such remarkable abilities, we first investigated the interaction between moisture and the eye surface. An ultrasonic humidifier was used to regulate the relative humidity of the atmosphere and mimic a mist composed of numerous tiny water droplets with diameters less than 10 lm. As the fog was C O M M U N IC A IO N