scholarly journals Controlling the Optical and Catalytic Properties of Artificial Metalloenzyme Photocatalysts Using Chemogenetic Engineering

Author(s):  
Yasmine S. Zubi ◽  
Bingqing Liu ◽  
Yifan Gu ◽  
Dipankar Sahoo ◽  
Jared Lewis

Visible light photocatalysis enables a broad range of organic transformations that proceed via single electron or energy transfer. Metal polypyridyl complexes are among the most commonly employed visible light photocatalysts. The photophysical properties of these complexes have been extensively studied and can be tuned by modifying the substituents on the pyridine ligands. On the other hand, ligand modifications that enable substrate binding to control reaction selectivity remain rare. Given the exquisite control that enzymes exert over electron and energy transfer processes in nature, we envisioned that artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) created by incorporating Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes into a suitable protein scaffold could provide a means to control photocatalyst properties. This study describes approaches to create covalent and non-covalent ArMs from a variety of Ru(II) polypyridyl cofactors and a prolyl oligopeptidase scaffold. A panel of ArMs with enhanced photophysical properties were engineered, and the nature of the scaffold/cofactor interactions in these systems was investigated. These ArMs provided higher yields and rates than Ru(Bpy)32+ for the reductive cyclization of dienones and the [2+2] photocycloaddition between C-cinnamoyl imidazole and 4-methoxystyrene, suggesting that protein scaffolds could provide a means to improve the efficiency of visible light photocatalysts.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmine S Zubi ◽  
Bingqing Liu ◽  
Yifan Gu ◽  
Dipankar Sahoo ◽  
Jared C Lewis

Visible light photocatalysis enables a broad range of organic transformations that proceed via single electron or energy transfer. Metal polypyridyl complexes are among the most commonly employed visible light photocatalysts....


2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (9) ◽  
pp. 1013-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Taima ◽  
Yuka Ishida ◽  
Tatsuo Arai

Stilbene dendrimers with energy harvesting chromophores, such as naphthalene and benzophenone, have been prepared and their photochemical and photophysical properties have been examined. These dendrimers underwent trans–cis mutual photoisomerization on excitation of the core stilbene or the peripheral naphthalene and benzophenone chromophores through several energy transfer processes, and photophysical processes such as intersystem crossing finally resulted in cis-trans isomerization of the core stilbene.


2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (45) ◽  
pp. 6405-6408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanan Wu ◽  
Yipin Zhang ◽  
Mingjie Jiang ◽  
Xunqing Dong ◽  
Hitesh B. Jalani ◽  
...  

A synthetic strategy which takes advantage of the synergistic combination of electron and energy transfer processes using only one photocatalyst has been developed for the multicomponent synthesis of the α,α-diarylalkylamine skeleton.


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (57) ◽  
pp. 32610-32620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiexin Zhang ◽  
Pengfang Wang ◽  
Zirui Gao ◽  
Yang An ◽  
Cheng He ◽  
...  

Iodoperfluoroalkylation or (Z)-selective perfluoroalkylation of olefins is mediated through energy transfer processes by using pyrene-based MOF NU-1000 under visible-light irradiation.


2002 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 33-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fábio M. Engelmann ◽  
Pellegrino Losco ◽  
Herbert Winnischofer ◽  
Koiti Araki ◽  
Henrique E. Toma

A series of meso-phenylpyridylporphyrins and their respective supermolecular species obtained by the coordination of [ Ru ( bipy )2 Cl ]+ groups to the pyridyl substituents was synthesized and characterized. Their spectroscopic and electrochemical behavior were similar to that observed for the meso-tetra(4-pyridyl)porphyrin derivative, but the redox potential of the Ru (III/II) redox pair was about 70 mV more negative. The porphyrin centered fluorescence quantum yield exhibited a linear decrease as a function of the number of pyridyl substituents on the porphyrin ring. Efficient intramolecular energy transfer processes from the 3 MLCT state of the ruthenium complexes to the porphyrin center were observed at 77K in ethanol glass.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (34) ◽  
pp. 8735-8759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoneng Cui ◽  
Caishun Zhang ◽  
Kejing Xu ◽  
Jianzhang Zhao

The molecular structure design, photophysical properties and the application of the broadband visible light-absorbing triplet photosensitizers are summarized.


1999 ◽  
Vol 598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylke Blumstengel ◽  
Elio Colabella ◽  
Riccardo Tubino ◽  
M. Jandke ◽  
P. Strohriegl

ABSTRACTWe have studied the photophysical properties and energy transfer processes in tris(phenylquinoxalines ) (TPQ). TPQs emit blue fluorescence with a maximum at 2.9 eV as well as green phosphorescence at 2.2 eV. When doped with a phosphorescent dye efficient energy transfer takes place from the excited singlet and triplet state of the TPQ host to the guest molecules. The mechanism of energy transfer can be understood in the frame of Förster's theory of dipole-dipole interaction. Besides the interesting photophysical properties, TPQs are also very efficient electron transport materials. Red light-emitting diodes utilizing doped TPQ as emitter and electron transport layer have been prepared and electroluminescence properties investigated.


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