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J Photochem Photobiol B ; 106: 113-9, 2012 Jan 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22115956

ABSTRACT

The present paper reports the investigations on the spectroscopic behavior of the binary complexes of the dye aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) with protein bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 18-crown 6 (CW) (ATA·BSA, ATA·CW) and the ternary complex ATA·CW·BSA by using UV-vis steady state and time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The primary aim of the work is to determine the protein (BSA) quantization by fluorescence enhancement method and investigate the 'enhancer' activity of crown ether (CW) on it to increase the resolution. Steady state and time resolved fluorescence measurements demonstrated how fluorescence intensity of ATA could be used for the determination of the protein BSA in aqueous solution. The binding of dye (probe/fluorescent medicinal molecule) with protein and the denaturing effect in the polar environment of acetonitrile of the dye protein complex act as drug binding as well as drug release activity. Apart from its basic research point of view, the present study also possesses significant importance and applications in the field of medicinal chemistry.


Subject(s)
Serum Albumin, Bovine/analysis , Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet , Animals , Aurintricarboxylic Acid/chemistry , Aurintricarboxylic Acid/metabolism , Cattle , Crown Ethers/chemistry , Crown Ethers/metabolism , Protein Binding , Serum Albumin, Bovine/metabolism , Time Factors
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Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20015683

ABSTRACT

We report steady state and time resolved fluorescence measurements on acetonitrile (ACN) solutions of the model compounds, energy donor anisole (A) and a photoswitchable acceptor N,N'-1,2-phenylene di-p-tosylamide (B) and the multichromophore (M) where A and B are connected by a spacer containing both rigid triple (acetylenic) and flexible methylene bonds. Both steady state and time correlated single photon counting measurements demonstrate that though intermolecular energy transfer, of Forster type, between the donor and acceptor moieties occurs with rate 10(8)s(-1) but when these two reacting components are linked by a spacer (multichromophore, M) the observed transfer rate ( approximately 10(11)s(-1)) enhances. This seemingly indicates that the imposition of the spacer by inserting a triple bond may facilitate in the propagation of electronic excitation energy through bond. The time resolved fluorescence measurements along with the theoretical predictions using Configuration interaction singles (CIS) method by using 6-31G (d,p) basis set, implemented in the Gaussian package indicate the formations of the two excited conformers of B. The experimental findings made from the steady state and time resolved fluorescence measurements demonstrate that, though two different isomeric species of the acceptor B are formed in the excited singlet states, the prevailing singlet-singlet nonradiative energy transfer route was found from the donor A to the relatively longer-lived isomeric species of B.


Subject(s)
Anisoles/chemistry , Energy Transfer , Photochemistry , Tosyl Compounds/chemistry , Molecular Structure , Spectrometry, Fluorescence , Tosyl Compounds/chemical synthesis
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J Phys Chem A ; 111(45): 11480-6, 2007 Nov 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17956077

ABSTRACT

Electrochemical and steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic studies on a disubstituted indole, 2,3-dimethylindole (DMI), and well-known electron acceptor 9-cyanoanthracene (9CNA) in liquid crystal (LC) 4-(n- pentyl)-4'-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) environment demonstrate entirely different spectroscopic and photophysical behaviors from those observed earlier by our research group with the same reacting systems in isotropic media n-heptane and acetonitrile (ACN). From the UV-vis absorption spectral measurements of the donor DMI in the presence of the acceptor 9CNA in liquid crystal medium (in 5CB) in various temperatures above the nematic-isotropic phase transition from 308 to 313 K (pseudo-ordered domain), it was observed that the lower energy lying absorption band of DMI situates in a longer wavelength region than the corresponding band observed in isotropic medium n-heptane or ACN. The possibility of the photochromic effect is discussed. In this band, the degree of mixing of the two closely spaced electronic states (1)L(a) (S(2)) and (1)L(b) (S(1)) of DMI was very prominent in the ordered LC environment (5CB) whereas in isotropic medium the dominant contribution for the formation of the lower energy band system primarily originates from the (1)Lb (S(1)) state, as evidenced from the steady-state polarization measurements. Both steady-state fluorescence quenching and time-resolved fluorescence studies clearly demonstrate in favor of the presence of only the static mode in LC environment. The situation differs in isotropic media where the dynamic process possesses the key role in the quenching mechanism. Expectedly, the transient absorption measurements by the nanosecond laser flash photolysis technique show a lack of formation of transient ionic species in the pseudo-ordered domain of 5CB. On the contrary, in isotropic solvents n-heptane and ACN, the transient absorption spectra measured by the same nanosecond laser flash photolysis technique exhibit the broad band of 9CNA radical anion at around 560 nm (9CNA-) and the band of neutral radical of DMI at 540 nm. It is inferred that the charge-separation reactions occurring within the present intermolecular systems could be stopped significantly by changing the nature of the environment from the isotropic to the LC's pseudo-ordered domain which situates closely above the nematic (N)-isotropic (I) phase transition temperature. From the steady-state and time-resolved investigations, it is revealed that, due to the hysteresis phenomenon, the nematic phase properties persist over a wide temperature range well within pseudo-ordered domain to some extent into the isotropic phases. The investigations with the different donor-acceptor inter- and intramolecular systems in 5CB and some other LC's environment are underway.

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Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16859957

ABSTRACT

From both steady state and fluorescence lifetime measurements it reveals that due to photoexcitation of benzotriazole (BZ) part of the bichromophore, 9(1-H-benzotriazole-lylmethyl)-9H-carbazole (BHC), singlet-singlet energy transfer takes place to populate the lowest excited singlet of carbazole (CZ). CZ, thus being excited indirectly via energy transfer process, undergoes strong charge transfer (CT) reaction with the surrounding polar medium acetonitrile (ACN). On the other hand, very weak CT band was apparent when CZ part, within BHC, was directly excited. In less polar tetrahydrofuran (THF) and polar benzonitrile (BN) environment, lack of formation of CT band strongly suggests in favor of the electron-accepting behavior of ACN. Moreover, by measuring the emission spectra of BHC in microcrystals and of 30 bilayers mixed LB film at high mole fraction of BHC molecules, the possibility of excimer formation or aggregation has been ruled out. Thus, BHC, when dissolved in ACN, acts as a triad system of BZ-CZ-ACN where BZ acts as an antenna molecule and CZ as a reaction center. The possible role of the bichromophoric system BHC as an artificial photosynthetic or solar energy conversion device has been hinted.


Subject(s)
Benzothiazoles/chemistry , Carbazoles/chemistry , Photosynthesis , Acetonitriles , Fluorescence , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Kinetics , Photochemistry , Spectrometry, Fluorescence , Temperature
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