Issue 1, 2014

A DFT/TDDFT study of the excited state intramolecular proton transfer based sensing mechanism for the aqueous fluoride chemosensor BTTPB

Abstract

The sensing mechanism of the aqueous fluoride chemosensor N-(3-(benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-4-(tert-butyldiphenyl silyloxy)phenyl)-benzamide (BTTPB) has been studied in detail by DFT/TDDFT methods. The desilylation reaction which has a moderate transition barrier of 17.6 kcal mol−1 and the excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) of the desilylation reaction product (3-BTHPB) work together for the fluorescent sensing mechanism. The constructed potential energy curves among the optimized 3-BTHPB (enol form) and 3-BTHPB-e (keto form) geometries on the S0 and S1 states, indicated that the ESIPT is a low barrier process (0.1 kcal mol−1), and the energies of the optimized geometries showed that the ESIPT process is exothermic. The calculated vertical excitation energies in the ground state and the first singlet excited state reproduced the experimental UV-Vis absorbance and fluorescence emission spectra well.

Graphical abstract: A DFT/TDDFT study of the excited state intramolecular proton transfer based sensing mechanism for the aqueous fluoride chemosensor BTTPB

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Sep 2013
Accepted
06 Nov 2013
First published
07 Nov 2013

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 254-259

A DFT/TDDFT study of the excited state intramolecular proton transfer based sensing mechanism for the aqueous fluoride chemosensor BTTPB

J. Chen, P. Zhou, L. Zhao and T. Chu, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 254 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA44900A

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