ABSTRACT
In this work, we report the synthesis and characterization of a novel series of first and second generation Fréchet type dendrons bearing amino-nitro substituted azobenzene units and tetra(ethylene glycol) spacers. These compounds were fully characterized by FTIR, 1H and 13C-NMR spectroscopies, and their molecular weights were determined by MALDI-TOF-MS. The thermal properties of the obtained dendrons were studied by TGA and DSC and their optical properties by absorption spectroscopy in solution and cast film. Molecular calculations were performed in order to determine the optimized geometries of these molecules in different environments. Besides, Langmuir and Langmuir Blodgett films were prepared with the first generation dendrons that were shown to be amphiphilic. Finally, some of the dendrons showed a liquid crystalline behaviour, which was studied by light polarized microscopy as a function of the temperature in order to determine the transition temperatures and the structure of the mesophase.
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Azo Compounds/chemistry , Dendrimers/chemical synthesis , Ethylene Glycol/chemistry , Liquid Crystals/chemistry , Models, Chemical , Optical Phenomena , Temperature , Amines/chemistry , Dendrimers/chemistry , Electrons , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Molecular Conformation , Nitro Compounds/chemistry , Solutions , Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet , Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared , ThermogravimetryABSTRACT
A series of pyrene-fullerene C60 dyads bearing pyrene units (PyFC12, PyFPy, Py2FC12 and PyFN) were synthesized and characterized. Their optical properties were studied by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies. Dyads were designed in this way because the pyrene moeities act as light-harvesting molecules and are able to produce "monomer" (PyFC12) or excimer emission (PyFPy, Py2FC12 and PyFN). The fluorescence spectra of the dyads exhibited a significant decrease in the amount of pyrene monomer and excimer emission, without the appearance of a new emission band due to fullerene C60. The pyrene fluorescence quenching was found to be almost quantitative, ranging between 96%-99% depending on the construct, which is an indication that energy transfer occurred from one of the excited pyrene species to the fullerene C60.
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Fullerenes/chemistry , Pyrenes/chemistry , Absorption , Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic , Light , Spectrometry, FluorescenceABSTRACT
Two novel azo-dyes bearing an end-capped oligo(ethylene glycol) chain were synthesized and then studied by UV-visible and NMR spectroscopy. For both azobenzenes, the end-capped oligo(ethylene glycol) segment is on the para position of the first phenyl ring. On the second phenyl ring, a methoxy group is added on the para position for one azo-dye and no substitution group on the other, which made them electronically a push-push and a push system, respectively. The presence of the methoxy group changes significantly the absorption and the photoisomerization behaviors and results in a much less intense absorbance for the trans isomer and a shift from 350 to 360 nm. In the kinetic studies the azobenzene bearing a methoxy group shows a zero-order and a first-order kinetics as a function of the time scale of the study as well as an aggregation phenomenon. This azo-dye in different solvents has been studied by (1)H NMR and pulsed gradient NMR experiments to understand the effects of the photoisomerization and the aggregation on the self-diffusion of these molecules in solutions.