Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Amino-Substituted Boron Dipyrromethene Dyes and Its Inhibition by Cation Complexation: A New Design Concept for Highly Sensitive Fluorescent Probes
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Abstract
The photophysical behavior of a newly synthesized aza crown-substituted boron−dipyrromethene (BDP) dye and its dimethylamino analogue were investigated with steady-state and time-resolved fluorometry and compared to a reference compound. In solvents more polar than hexane, excitation of the dyes leads to a fast charge transfer from the locally excited (LE) state to a weakly emissive charge-transfer (CT) state. The donor-substituted compounds show dual emission from the LE and CT state, both fluorescence quantum yields being low. The rate constant of excited-state charge separation, calculated from the global analysis of time-resolved emission data, was determined to 1.6 × 1011 s-1 in 1,4-dioxane. The crowned compound forms 1:1-complexes with various alkali and alkaline-earth metal ions, which exist as two conformers in solution. In these complexes, coordination of the cation to the nitrogen donor atom of the crown inhibits the charge-transfer process, leading to a cation-dependent enhancement of the LE emission and the fluorescence lifetimes by factors >103. This efficient “switching on” of the fluorescence renders the crowned BDP dye an extremely sensitive fluorescent probe for metal ions.
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