Spectroscopic Investigation of the Noncovalent Association of the Nerve Agent Simulant Diisopropyl Methylphosphonate (DIMP) with Zinc(II) Porphyrins

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Abstract

Organophosphonates pose a significant threat as chemical warfare agents, as well as environmental toxins in the form of pesticides. Thus, methodologies to sense and decontaminate these agents are of significant interest. Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins offer an excellent platform to develop chemical threat sensors and photochemical degradation systems. These highly conjugated planar molecules exhibit relatively long-lived singlet and triplet states with high quantum yields and also form self-associated complexes with a wide variety of molecules. A significant aspect of porphyrins is the ability to functionalize the peripheral ring system either directly to the pyrrole rings or to the bridging methine carbons. In this report, steady-state absorption and fluorescence are utilized to probe binding affinities of a series of symmetric and asymmetric zinc(II) metalloporphyrins for the nerve agent simulant diisopropyl methylphosphonate (DIMP) in hexane. The red shifts in the absorption and emission spectra observed for all of the metalloporphyrins probed are discussed in the frame of Gouterman's four orbital model and a common binding motif involving coordination between the metalloporphyrin and DIMP via interaction between the zinc metal center of the porphyrin and phosphoryl oxygen of DIMP (Zn-O═P) is proposed.

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