Chemistry Faculty Publications
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Article
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We report the results of a multidisciplinary research effort where the methods of computational photochemistry and retrosynthetic analysis/synthesis have contributed to the preparation of a novel N-alkylated indanylidene-pyrroline Schiff base featuring an exocyclic double bond and a permanent zwitterionic head. We show that, due to its large dipole moment and efficient photoisomerization, such a system may constitute the prototype of a novel generation of electrostatic switches achieving a reversible light-induced dipole moment change on the order of 30 D. The modeling of a peptide fragment incorporating the zwitterionic head into a conformationally rigid side chain shows that the switch can effectively modulate the fluorescence of a tryptophan probe.
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Melloni, Alfonso; Paccani, Riccardo Rossi; Donati, Donato; Zanirato, Vinicio; Sinicropi, Adalgisa; Parisi, Maria Laura; Martin, Elena; Ryazantsev, Mikhail; Ding, Wan Jian; Frutos, Luis Manuel; Basosi, Riccardo; Fusi, Stefania; Latterini, Loredana; Ferre, Nicolas; and Olivucci, Massimo, "Modeling, Preparation, And Characterization Of A Dipole Moment Switch Driven By Z/e Photoisomerization" (2010). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 127.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/chem_pub/127
Publication Date
7-2010
Publication Title
Journal Of The American Chemical Society
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja906733q
Start Page No.
9310
End Page No.
9319
