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摘要
Hydrogen bonding between carbazole and pyridine is known to quench fluorescence emission of carbazole. Three carbazolopyridinophanes-compounds composed of carbazole and pyridine subunits such that an intramolecular hydrogen bond may exist between them-have been pursued as reversible fluorescent sensors that detect given analytes through fluorescence restoration. However, these sensors exhibit background fluorescence believed to be related to the proportion of non-hydrogen-bonded conformers present. In this computational investigation, the potential energy surfaces of various hydrogen-bonded carbazole: pyridine complexes are investigated using density functional theory with the intent of explaining the observed background fluorescence for the carbazolopyridinophanes. The results indicate carbazolopyridinophane conformers most resembling the geometry of their corresponding free carbazole: pyridine complexes exhibit the least background fluorescence.
- 出版日期2017-2
