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Yutaro Hori
Bio: Yutaro Hori is an academic researcher from Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tautomer & Hydrogen bond. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations.
Topics: Tautomer, Hydrogen bond, Covalent bond, Quinoline, Imine
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TL;DR: In this article, the reimagined concept of long-range tautomeric proton transfer using crane subunits is shown by designing and synthesising two new acylhydrazones containing a 7-hydroxyquinoline (7-OHQ) platform.
Abstract: The reimagined concept of long-range tautomeric proton transfer using crane subunits is shown by designing and synthesising two new acylhydrazones containing a 7-hydroxyquinoline (7-OHQ) platform. The acylhydrazone subunits attached to the 7-OHQ at the 8th position act as crane arms for delivering proton cargo to the quinoline nitrogen. Light-induced tautomerization to their keto forms leads to Z/E isomerization of the C=C axle bond, followed by proton delivery to the quinoline nitrogen by the formation of covalent or hydrogen bonds. The axle's being either an imine or ketimine bond is the structural difference between the studied compounds. The -CH3 group in the latter provides steric strain, resulting in different proton transport pathways. Both compounds show long thermal stability in the switched state, which creates a tuneable action of bidirectional proton cargo transport by using different wavelengths of irradiation. Upon the addition of acid, the quinoline nitrogen is protonated; this results in E/Z configuration switching of the acylhydrazone subunits. This was proven by single-crystal X-ray structure analysis and NMR spectroscopy.
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TL;DR: A series of ESIPT-capable zinc(II) complexes [Zn(HL)Hal2] (Hal = Cl, Br, I) with a rationally designed EIPTligand 1-hydroxy-5-methyl-2,4-di(pyridin-2-yl)-1H-imidazole (HL) featuring spatially separated metal binding and esIPT sites have been synthesized and characterized.
Abstract: The ability of 1-hydroxy-1H-imidazoles to undergo proton transfer processes and to exist in N-hydroxy and N-oxide tautomeric forms can be used in coordination chemistry for the design of ESIPT-capable complexes. A series of ESIPT-capable zinc(II) complexes [Zn(HL)Hal2] (Hal = Cl, Br, I) with a rationally designed ESIPT-ligand 1-hydroxy-5-methyl-2,4-di(pyridin-2-yl)-1H-imidazole (HL) featuring spatially separated metal binding and ESIPT sites have been synthesized and characterized. Crystals of these compounds consist of a mixture of two isomers of [Zn(HL)Hal2]. Only a major isomer has a short intramolecular hydrogen bond O-H⋯N as a pre-requisite for ESIPT. In the solid state, the complexes [Zn(HL)Hal2] demonstrate temperature- and excitation wavelength dependent fluorescence in the cyan region due to the interplay of two intraligand fluorescence channels with excited state lifetimes spanning from 0.2 to 4.3 ns. The coordination of HL by Zn2+ ions results in an increase in the photoluminescence efficiency, and the photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs) of the complexes reach 12% at λex = 300 nm and 27% at λex = 400 nm in comparison with the PLQY of free HL of ca. 2%. Quantum chemical calculations indicate that N-hydroxy-N-oxide phototautomerization is both thermodynamically and kinetically favourable in the S1 state for [Zn(HL)Hal2]. The proton transfer induces considerable geometrical reorganizations and therefore results in large Stokes shifts of ca. 230 nm. In contrast, auxiliary ESIPT-incapable complexes [ZnL2][Zn(OAc)2]2·2H2O and [ZnL2][ZnCl2]2·4H2O with the deprotonated ligand exhibit excitation wavelength independent emission in the violet region with the Stokes shift reduced to ca. 130 nm.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the ability of long-range proton transport by substitution of 7-hydroxyquinoline at the eighth position with sulfonamide and sulfonylhydrazone rotor units to act as a crane-arm has been studied.
Abstract: The ability of long-range proton transport by substitution of 7-hydroxyquinoline at the eighth position with sulfonamide and sulfonylhydrazone rotor units to act as a crane-arm has been studied. Different proton transport pathways triggered by different stimuli have been established depending on the structure of the crane-arms. Solvent-driven proton switching from OH to the quinoline nitrogen (Nquin) site, facilitated by a sulfonamide transporter group in polar protic and aprotic solvents, has been confirmed by optical (absorption and fluorescence) and NMR spectroscopies as well as by single-crystal X-ray structure analysis. Photoinduced long-range proton transport to the Nquin site upon 340 nm UV light irradiation has been estimated in sulfonylhydrazone, which is not sensitive to solvent-driven switching. Both compounds have exhibited acid-triggered switching by trifluoroacetic acid due to the formation of a stable six-membered intramolecular hydrogen bonding interaction between the protonated Nquin and crane-arm. The structures of acid-switched form were confirmed by NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray structure analysis. The behavior of the compounds suggests a big step forward in the advanced proton pump-switching architecture because they cover three distinct driving forces in the switching process: solvent, light, and acid.
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TL;DR: In this article , the emission properties associated with excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) were theoretically studied in solution and in the solid state for a series of 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)benzimidazole-based (HBI) ESIPT-fluorophores 3a-3e having different halogen substituents in the ortho and para positions to the proton-donating hydroxy group.
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TL;DR: In this paper , a series of new 2-arylazo-thiazole-based arylazo dyes pendant to fluorene moiety was synthesized via efficient hydrazonoyl halides with the carbothioamide precursor.
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