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Chloromethyl-modified Ru(ii) complexes enabling large pH jumps at low concentrations through photoinduced hydrolysis†

Na Tian,ab   Weize Sun,ab   Yang Feng,ab   Xusheng Guo,ab   Jian Lu,ab   Chao Li,a   Yuanjun Hou,a   Xuesong Wang ORCID logo *ab  and  Qianxiong Zhou ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
E-mail: xswang@mail.ipc.ac.cn, zhouqianxiong@mail.ipc.ac.cn

b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

Abstract

Photoacid generators (PAGs) are finding increasing applications in spatial and temporal modulation of biological events in vitro and in vivo. In these applications, large pH jumps at low PAG concentrations are of great importance to achieve maximal expected manipulation but minimal unwanted interference. To this end, both high photoacid quantum yield and capacity are essential, where the capacity refers to the proton number that a PAG molecule can release. Up to now, most PAGs only produce one proton for each molecule. In this work, the hydrolysis reaction of benzyl chlorides was successfully leveraged to develop a novel type of PAG. Upon visible light irradiation, Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes modified with chloromethyl groups can undergo full hydrolysis with photoacid quantum yield as high as 0.6. Depending on the number of the chloromethyl groups, the examined Ru(II) complexes can release multiple protons per molecule, leading to large pH jumps at very low PAG concentrations, a feature particularly favorable for bio-related applications.

Graphical abstract: Chloromethyl-modified Ru(ii) complexes enabling large pH jumps at low concentrations through photoinduced hydrolysis

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SC03957K
Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
08 Aug 2019
Accepted
15 Oct 2019
First published
24 Oct 2019
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2019,10, 9949-9953

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Chloromethyl-modified Ru(II) complexes enabling large pH jumps at low concentrations through photoinduced hydrolysis

N. Tian, W. Sun, Y. Feng, X. Guo, J. Lu, C. Li, Y. Hou, X. Wang and Q. Zhou, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 9949 DOI: 10.1039/C9SC03957K

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