Issue 11, 2016

The unquenched triplet excited state of the fluorescent OFF/ON Bodipy-derived molecular probe based on photo-induced electron transfer

Abstract

Fluorescent molecular probes based on photo-induced electron transfer (PET) are well-known for which fluorescence is efficiently tuned OFF/ON by a PET process. Now we demonstrate that the triplet excited state of the probes is unable to be quenched by PET, which is in stark contrast to the singlet excited state (fluorescence). This conclusion was proved by the preparation of a fluorescent molecular probe BDP-DPA, which shows enhanced fluorescence upon addition of a Zn(II) salt. With fluorescence spectroscopy, nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy and electrochemical studies, we found that the triplet excited state of BDP-DPA was not quenched by any PET process, although the singlet excited state (fluorescence) of BDP-DPA was quenched. The results are useful for the study of the triplet excited states of organic chromophores and for designing external stimuli-activatable triplet photosensitizers for triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion and photodynamic therapy.

Graphical abstract: The unquenched triplet excited state of the fluorescent OFF/ON Bodipy-derived molecular probe based on photo-induced electron transfer

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Aug 2016
Accepted
07 Sep 2016
First published
08 Sep 2016

Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2016,15, 1358-1365

The unquenched triplet excited state of the fluorescent OFF/ON Bodipy-derived molecular probe based on photo-induced electron transfer

Z. Mahmood and J. Zhao, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2016, 15, 1358 DOI: 10.1039/C6PP00307A

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