Quinolines by Three-Component Reaction: Synthesis and Photophysical Studies

Data for 1-ethynyl-4-heptyloxybenzene (7a). Yield 70%; colorless oil; H NMR (300MHz, CDCl3) δ (ppm) 7.26 (d, J 8.5 Hz, 2H, Ar-H), 6.67 (d, J 8.4 Hz, 2H, Ar-H), 3.77 (t, J 6.0 Hz, 2H, CH2O), 2.85 (s, 1H, CCH), 1.63 (m, 2H, CH2CH2O), 1.30-1.20 (m, 8H, (CH2)4), 0.78 (t, J 6.5 Hz, 3H, CH3); C NMR (75 MHz, CDCl3) δ (ppm) 160.13, 134.09, 115.00, 114,59, 84.36, 76.30, 68.58, 32.42, 29.83, 29.71, 26.61, 23.25, 14.69.


Introduction
Quinolines are present in many pharmacologically active natural compounds.The simplest structure is the 1-azanaphthalene named quinoline itself, which was prepared by Friedländer in 1882 through the condensation of o-aminobenzaldehyde with acetaldehyde in the presence of sodium hydroxide. 1Quinolines display a broad spectrum of application in medicine, such as antiseptic, antimalarial, and as fungicides and antibiotics.3][4] Some quinolines such as chloroquine, amodiaquine and quinine can be safely used during pregnancy. 5Primaquine, however, another drug used in the treatment of malaria, should not be used during pregnancy. 6he biological activity of chloroquine was evaluated through fluorescence quenching studies developed by Naal et al. 7 Their findings provide information about the chloroquine-micellar surface interactions in water and their ability to cross biological membranes in order to accumulate inside lysosomes.
The combination of quinoline ring and styryl moiety resulted in a small and powerful luminescent molecular material, which presents pronounced fluorescence and noticeable nonlinear responses to be exploited in protochromic ON-OFF-ON effects. 8In addition, small fluorescent molecules can be applied for the detection of fibrillar aggregates by binding to the fibril and changing its fluorescence properties by absorbing and emitting light Vol.26, No. 3, 2015   in the far red/near-infrared (NIR) region (ca.600-800 nm).Under this circumstance, tissue scattering and absorption is lowest.Most particularly, they are able to cross the bloodbrain barrier due to their small molecular size. 9,10ndustrial applications of quinolines include use as dyes, preservatives and ligands to metal complexes, and have strong impact in luminescence chemistry. 11Multicomponent reactions are a useful tool to synthesize molecules from simple to complex architectures in a way that their chemical and pharmaceutical properties can be explored, making quinolines important in pharmacology and functional material chemistry. 12uinolines are fluorescent molecules with good electron acceptance in biological media and in devices.The potential redox of simple quinolines is a reversible process.However, the potential redox, and the absorption and spectral emission properties of quinoline derivatives can be tailored by appropriate substitution in the quinoline ring or/and in the peripheral aryl groups. 13e here report our results involving the synthesis and characterisation of new quinolines synthesised by three-component reaction between aldehyde, amine and alkyne under Lewis catalyst FeCl 3 and Yb(OTf) 3 .Groundstate and excited-stated dynamics analysis are discussed for one quinoline synthesised in this work along with electrochemical data.These results will be exploited in the future, in the preparation and utilisation of new iridium complexes in the field of organic-light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and metal-complex liquid crystals (MCLC). 13

Synthesis
The preparation of key intermediates for the threecomponent reaction of the quinolines 8a-e is described in Scheme 1. Aldehyde 2a was obtained by alkylation reaction of 1, in nearly quantitative yield. 14Amines 4a-b were prepared in two steps: alkylation reaction followed by reduction of the nitro group to the amine group by means of hydrogenolysis reaction (H 2 /Pd/C in MeOH). 15Aldehydes 2b and 2c and amine 4c are commercial chemicals.Alternatively, they can be prepared using the condition reaction described by Vogel 16 and Markiewicz et al. 16 Alkynes 7a-b were synthesised in three steps, starting with 5 by alkylation reaction, followed by Sonogashira crosscoupling reaction and acetone release in the basic medium to give 7a and 7b in good yields. 17Alkyne 7c 17 was made similarly to 7a-b from 6-bromo-2-napthol.
Since the preparation of the intermediates 2a, 4a, 7a-b was accomplished, metal-catalysed three-component coupling 4 was performed as outlined in Scheme 2. Two Lewis acids were tested: FeCl 3 and Yb(OTf) 3 as a catalyst of three-component coupling.FeCl 3 was chosen due to its low price, non-toxicity, and environmental friendly characteristics. 18Despite the attributes mentioned above, the approach using a three-component reaction with Fe(III) resulted in poor yield and reproducibility.Very low yields were obtained for 8a (12%), 8b (15%) and 8c (13%) using FeCl 3 .When the catalyst ratio was increased to 20 mol%, the yield of 8b rose to 40%.Previous work by Furukawa 19 showed that the Yb(III) triflate is an effective catalyst to prepare 2-arylquinolines.Following the procedure described by Furukawa, 19 quinolines 8c and 8d were obtained in 40% and 60%, by using Yb(III) triflate as a catalyst.The ratio of catalyst (mol%), yields (%) and melting point (°C) for quinolines 8a-e are shown in Table 1.
The mechanism for the formation of the quinoline derivatives is generally accepted as activation on both processes of imine addition and cyclization.The double and triple bond of both imine group and alkyne could be activated by a Lewis acid such as Au(III), 20 Fe(III) 21 and Yb(III). 22The complexation effect promotes the formation of propargylamine intermediate A, 23 which undergoes an intramolecular hydroarylation 24 to give another intermediate dihydroquinoline B. Propargylamine A is generally isolated when aliphatic amines are used.In the present study, no attempt to detect or to isolate intermediate A was made.Dihydroquinolines could then be further oxidized by O 2 25 to afford quinoline products 8a-e.In summary, this onepot reaction undergoes domino imine formation, imine addition, cyclization and an oxidation process.The three-component protocol applied in this study allows us to prepare new quinolines, which are, of course, naturally anisotropic.The choice of amines, aldehydes and alkynes are crucial in order to reach the final anisometricshape molecules.However, concerning phase transition, these new quinolines are not liquid crystals.According to polarising optical microscopy (POM) studies, no evidence of mesophases was observed.Upon heating or cooling, the quinolines pass directly from solid state to isotropic state or vice versa.Upon cooling, quinolines 8a-e display a large hysteresis range and they recrystallize well below their melting point, while when left for a long time at room temperature, they recrystallize very slowly.A homeotropic film was also observed over a large area of the sample from the POM texture.Unfortunately, neither enantiotropic nor monotropic behaviour can be seen in those samples.Starting from simple quinoline 8a and adding a second aryl group or lengthening the flexible alkyl chain were not enough for the generation of liquid crystal properties as exemplified by the more anisotropic quinoline 8e one.
A particularly interesting feature of the single-crystal X-ray structure of 8e is related to the pendant naphthyl group.It is twisted 65.2° from the plane of the quinoline unit.A flexible alkyl chain linked to this pendant aryl group is also randomly coiled, which indicates non-longer planarity of the molecule and a non-favourable molecular package.In fact, the absence of a mesophase for the quinolines 8a-e can be attributed to the planarity and package structure.Although our efforts in preparation of the mono-and disubstituted arylquinolines liquid crystals as exemplified by 8a and 8b-e failed, we performed a photophysical study of donor-acceptor luminescent molecules derived from quinolines in this work.

The single crystal X-ray diffraction studies
The structural characterization of quinolines obtained by three component reaction was also established unequivocally by single crystal X-ray structure analysis of quinoline 8e (Figure 1, top).The single crystal X-ray diffraction studies for 8e were accomplished successfully, showing distinct conformation behaviour of alkylaryl groups linked to the quinoline moiety.The structure of 8e shows that the phenyl group is almost coplanar, whereas the pendant naphthyl group is twisted compared to the plane of the quinoline unit.The torsion angle for N1-C1-C10-C11 is 7.30 (17)° and for C4-C3-C24-C33 is 65.22(15)°.From this point of view, the electron migration is more pronounced through the phenyl-quinolinyl system than the naphtyl-quinolinyl system.The preference for non-coplanarity of the naphtyl group is due to a hydrogen atom at the C5 carbon atom where the free rotation around C3-C24 bond is hindered by a steric effect hydrogen atom.The conformational issue observed in this study has been also observed in kinetics studies of hydrolysis of acetoxy naphthoic acids. 26To overcome this geometrical constraint, the bond length of the aryl group attached at the bay of the quinoline ring are slightly different.For instance, the bond length of C1-C10 is 1.4868(16) Å, while for C3-C24, the bond length value is longer by 0.0057 Å (1.4925(14) Å).Although the arrangement of the aryl groups at the bay of quinoline ring is quite different, the torsion angles to the three set of atoms namely C7-C6-O3-C41, C14-C13-O1-C16 and C30-C29-O2-C34 are 179.38(10)°,177.72(11)° and 178.13(11)°, respectively.Thus, the first carbon atom of the alkyl chains is located on the same plane as the aryl and quinolinyl groups.The alkoxy chain connected to the C6 and C13 aromatic carbon atoms have an antiperiplanar arrangement for most carbon atoms including O1 and O3 oxygen atoms.However, the third alkoxy group connected to C29 aromatic carbon atom does not have an antiperiplanar arrangement for all saturated carbon atoms.They probably lost their conformational memory due to the twisted disposition of the naphthyl group to which they are bonded.The flexible alkyl chain linked to the pendant naphthyl group is randomly coiled.The disordered pendant group in 8e aligns itself in an opposite direction, exhibiting alternate dispositions such as head-tail.
We suggest that the conformational behaviour observed in the crystal state may have an influence on the mesogenic behaviour as well as on the photophysical properties.The packing analysis shows neighbouring quinoline units are almost coplanar with respect to each other, with an average distance of 3.8 Å, exhibiting face-to-face π-stacking (Figure 1, bottom).The single crystal structure of quinoline 8e provides a basis for elucidating the effect of solid-state morphology on their photophysics and liquid-crystalline properties.The absence of a mesophase, the glass-like appearance of the samples after heating/cooling cycles and UV-Vis absorption spectra profile are related to the molecular packing, as revealed by crystal structure of 8e.
Ground-state and excited singlet-state: dependence on solvent and temperature The UV-Vis absorption and fluorescence emission spectra of the quinolines 8a-e are shown in Figures 2 and 3.The substitution of an aryl group affects the two absorption bands in different ways; in fact, the p-alcoxyaryl group in C 4 position of quinoline ring does not seem to greatly disturb the electronic UV-Vis spectrum of 8a, while the p-alkoxyphenyl group in C 2 position induces the rise of the band at 290 nm, as observed for 8b-e in Figure 2. The comparison between the UV-Vis spectra of quinoline and 8a reveals similar patterns (optical behaviour) in the interval of wavelength of 270-330 nm. 27Quinoline itself and quinoline 8a have similar spectra, indicating that the aryl group in C 4 position does not change the chromophore characteristics.However, when an alkoxyaryl group is present in C 2 position, the quinolines 8b-e absorption shows an intense band around 290 nm, which is not observed to 8a.The quinolines 8a-e have similar absorption at the 230-320 nm range, which is assigned to π,π transition that shifts to red in polar solvent (acetonitrile and ethanol) and is characterized by a large molar absorption coefficient.The n,π* transitions are observed as a shoulder in the 320-450 nm range (e ca. 10 3 mol -1 L cm -1 ), which is not shifted in polar solvent, as shown in Figure 2.
In contrast with absorption, the solvent polarity affects the fluorescence properties of quinolines.The Stokes shift data, given by the difference between the maximum peak of normalised absorption and emission spectra, and the energy of the lowest singlet excited state, E S1 , which is estimated from the intersection of the normalised absorption and emission spectra, is observed in Table 3.No significant changes are observed on the Stokes shifts when replacing acetonitrile with ethanol.E S1 is independent of the solvent, with energy of 3.39 eV, discarding a hydrogen-bond interaction in the excited single-state.The compounds studied exhibit an overall increase of Stokes shift from non-polar to polar solvents mainly due to the combined effect of increasing the polarity of the medium and intramolecular charge transfer state (ICT).Other researchers relate the presence of the ICT state in quinoline molecules to the density functional theory and experimental studies. 28,29The absorption spectrum of 8d has an extinction coefficient of 1.4 × 10 4 mol -1 L cm −1 at 350 nm in ethanol.The fluorescence of quinoline 8d in ethanol at 298 K and 77 K is shown in Figure 4, which is more intense at low temperature (77 K) with a maximum of 400 nm, indicating a relevant and competitive non-radiative process to deactivate the excited single-state.
The quinoline derivatives 8a-e present an emission band around 400 nm in polar solvent.The maximum absorption and emission wavelength and other photophysical properties of quinoline derivatives are shown in Table 2. Quinoline 8d displays a phosphorescence emission at 77 K      in ethanol solution, showing clear vibrational resolution with three main bands at 440, 505 and 540 nm, which have the same time decay of 950 ms, close to that reported for other quinolines (0.5-1.5 s). 28Phosphorescence properties and others photophysical characterisation can be found in Table 3. Figure 5 shows the transient species of 8d obtained by laser pulse excitation at 355 nm in the absence of oxygen.Quinoline 8d presents three transient absorption bands centred at 250 nm, 450 nm and 900 nm with the same time decay in ethanol.The lifetime decay of 2.6 ms was observed in all spectra, suggesting T-T character absorption.
The shoulder observed in the absorption spectra in the 380 nm region with time decay of 6.8 ms is assigned to the semioxidized radical of the 8d formed by self-quenching.
Quinoline 8d can form a semi-oxidised radical specie (Q •+ ) at 350-450 nm and a semi-reduced form of quinoline (Q •-) at 740 nm by reaction with electron acceptor and electron donors molecules, respectively.Nedoloujko and Kiwi 30 relate the lifetime of semi-oxidized radical around 4 ms at 400 nm, comparable to 8d specie at the same spectral range.No differences in the absorption spectra of 8d were observed in methanol, ethanol, methylcyclohexane or acetonitrile as solvent, however, in aired solution, the T-T absorption of 8d was totally quenched in ethanol.In the presence of a high concentration of phenol (× 10 -4 mol L -1 ), the triplet of 8d is quenched, simultaneously with an increase of the absorption in 280-500 nm range.These absorptions can be ascribed to a semi-oxidized form of 8d, formed by an electron transfer donation to phenol.Figure 6a shows the effect of phenol in the 8d absorption spectra.In photolysis experiments, the reaction of dye triplets with phenols is very well-known and leads to the formation of the corresponding phenoxyl radicals, [31][32][33] which have strong absorption bands around 390nm.The kinetic curve of decay of phenoxyl radical is easily differentiated from the quinoline 8d species by the long lifetime decay generated in ethanol.Scheme 3 shows the electron transfer mechanism between quinoline 8d (Q) and phenol (PhOH), where PhOH • and PhO • are the protonated and deprotonated phenol radicals.Q(+H) •+ is the semi-oxidized quinoline radical in protonated form.
Following the electron transfer process in the triplet state of quinoline, the Rehm-Weller equation 34 can be written as: where E* is the energy of the triplet state (3.10 eV) and the last term is the coulombic energy necessary to form an ion pair with charges Z 1 and Z 2 in a medium of dielectric constant D at a distance r 12 .The coulombic term can be neglected in a medium of high dielectric constant.E (D/D+) (+1.65 V from voltammetry) and E (A/A-) (+0.86 V vs. NHE) 35 are the potential, in volts, for the oxidation of quinoline and reduction of phenol, respectively.The negative free energy (∆G et = -242.20kJ mol -1 ) calculated by Rehm-Weller equation connects a favourable electron transfer  The underlined values are the absorption band used for fluorescence excitation and laser flash photolysis (LFP) excitation.
process between triplet-state of quinoline 8d and phenol, indicating a good alternative for compounds that can be photo-activated, such as solar cells.

Conclusions
In summary, a three-component coupling reaction of aldehydes 2, amines 4 and alkynes 7 mediated by Lewis acid FeCl 3 and Yb(OTf) 3 was applied to five new synthesised quinolines 8a-e.8a is 4-aryl-8-alkyl disubstituted and 8b-e is 2,4-diaryl-6-alkyl trisubstituted quinolines.The Yb 3+ catalyst rendered the quinolines in better yields than Fe 3+ .None of quinolines 8a-e displayed LC behaviour, even the more anisotropic 8e.The chemical structures of the quinolines were fully characterised by 1 H and 13 C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS) analysis.A single-crystal X-ray analysis was also determined for 8e.From a single-crystal structure, 8e has a phenyl group and a pendant naphthyl group connected to the C2 and C4 carbon of the quinoline ring with torsion angles of 7.30° and 65.2°, respectively.The flexible alkyl located on the naphthyl group is randomly coiled.UV-Vis absorbance measurements of the quinolines in different dielectric constant media show two different bands at 280 and 350 nm, that were attributed to π,π* and n,π* transitions, respectively.In polar solvents, the quinoline 8d presents a progressive red shift of the lowest-energy emission band at 400 nm and no change was observed to the lower-energy absorption band (e < 10 4 mol -1 L cm -1 ), which was characterised as n,π* transition.A laser flash photolysis study for 8d connects a main transient band at 450 nm with a lifetime of 2.6 ms in ethanol that is totally quenched in the presence of oxygen.The transient was assigned to triplet-triplet absorption of quinoline 8d, which is semi-oxidized in the presence of phenol by electron transfer.

Spectral measurements
Absorption spectra, time-resolved fluorescence and electrochemistry data as well as crystallographic analysis are reported in the SI section.

Synthesis
All starting materials were purchased from commercial suppliers (Sigma Aldrich Chemical Co., Acros Organics and ABCR Chemicals) and used without further purification.All reactions were carried out under a nitrogen atmosphere in oven-dried glassware with magnetic stirring.Solvents were dried, purified and degassed under classical methods.Solvents used in extraction and purification were distilled prior to use.Thin layer chromatography (TLC) was performed using silica gel 60 F254 aluminum sheets and the visualization of the spots has been done under UV light (254 nm) or stained with iodine vapor.Products were purified by flash chromatography on silica gel 60 M, 230-400 mesh.Melting point was measured using an Olympus BX43 microscope equipped with a Mettler Toledo FP82HT Hot Stage FP90. 1 H ( 13 C) NMR spectra were recorded at 300 (75) MHz on a Varian Inova and 400 (100) MHz Bruker spectrometer using CDCl 3 as solvent.The 1 H and 13 C chemical shifts were reported in parts per million (δ) referenced to residual solvent signals at δ H/C 7.26/77.00(CDCl 3 ) relative to tetramethylsilane (TMS) as internal standard.Coupling constants J [Hz] were directly taken from the spectra and are not averaged.Splitting patterns are designated as s (singlet), d (doublet), t (triplet), General procedure for the synthesis of quinolines 8a-e: A solution of aldehyde (1 mmol or 1.5 mmol for paraformaldehyde), aniline (1 mmol) and catalyst (FeCl 3 or Yb(OTf) 3 10 mol%) in 5 mL of dry toluene was stirred for 10 min, subsequently, 1 equivalent of alkyne was added to this mixture.The solution was heated at azeotropic reflux under an air atmosphere until the reactants are consumed (ca.48 h).When the procedure was realized using Yb(OTf) 3 , the mixture was heated for 36 h at 80 o C. The dark reaction mixture was cooled and filtered through a celite plug covered with thin activated charcoal.After evaporation of the solvent, the crude product was purified by silica gel chromatography (95:5 hexane:CH 2 Cl 2 ).Quinolines by Three-Component Reaction: Synthesis and Photophysical Studies J. Braz.Chem.Soc.S12

Electrochemical studies
For estimation of the HOMO and LUMO, 8c was selected and cyclic voltammetry experiments were carried out in Autolab PGSTAST, using a three compartment cell with a platinum shit as working electrode, Ag/AgCl electrode as reference and a Pt wire as counter electrode.The quinoline was measured using 0.1 mol L -1 TBAPF 6 in acetonitrile, as supporting electrolyte, at scan rate of 20 mV s -1 .The half-wave potential (E 1/2 ) of Fc/Fc + measured in 0.1 mol L -1 TBAPF acetonitrile solution is 0.41 V vs. Ag/AgCl.
Cyclic voltammetry results of quinoline 8c were compared with UV-Vis data.Figure S1 shows the voltammetry curve in 0.1 mol L -1 of TBAPF 6 .Figure S1 shows the oxidation and reduction peaks with values of 1.65 V and -0.55 V, respectively.The HOMO and LUMO energy levels were calculated using the oxidation and reduction values in equation 1.
Ferrocene potential at -4.8 eV was included to define the zero point.The HOMO energy was calculated as 6.06 (-eV) and the LUMO was 3.76 (-eV), therefore the energy gap from the electrochemical measurements were calculated as E gap = 2.3 eV, which is in agreement with the E gap obtained from the optical measurements as describe in the UV-Vis section.The band gap from UV-Vis spectra (1.98 eV) was obtained by extrapolation, using the equation E gap = 1240/l (nm).

Spectral measurements
Absorption spectra were taken in a Thermo-scientific spectrometer using a 1 cm quartz cuvette.Steady-state fluorescence measurements were made in a HITACHI model F4500 spectrometer.Time-resolved fluorescence of the compounds were measured by time-correlated single-photon counting using a homemade picosecond spectrometer equipped with Glan-Laser polarizers (Newport), a Peltier-cooled PMTMCP (Hamamatsu R3809U-50) as the photon detector, and Tennelec-Oxford counting electronics.The light pulse was provided by frequency doubling the 200 fs laser pulse of a Mira 900 Ti-Sapphire laser pumped by a Verdi 5 W coherent laser, and the pulse frequency was reduced to 800 kHz using a Conoptics pulse picker.The fluorescence decays were excited at 400 nm and decay results were analyzed by a reconvolution procedure with instrument response function (irf).Fluorescence decay times were fitted with a biexponential function, optimizing Chi square, residuals, and standard deviation parameters.All solutions were deaerated by bubbling oxygen-free nitrogen.The mean fluorescence decay was calculated according to equation 2: where the t i is the individual decay time and A i are the corresponding relative amplitudes.For fluorescence quantum yield experiments, the solutions were placed in 1 cm quartz cuvette and the absorbance of the compounds solutions was set at 0.1-0.2 to minimize inner-filter effects and the presence of aggregates.Transient absorption spectra were obtained using a LFP-112 Luzchem nanosecond laser flash photolysis spectrometer.Excitation of the samples was performed with the third harmonic (355 nm) of a Brio Nd-YAG laser, with 5.2 ns pulses.Kinetic analyses were made with the Luzchem proprietary software.
The fluorescence quantum yield at 293 K was obtained by comparison with the emission of anthracene in ethanol (F F = 0.27). 1 The quantum yields were calculated according to equation 3: where the subscript "o" indicates the reference solution, DO is the optical density, F F is the fluorescence quantum yield, ∫I(l) is the integrated fluorescence intensity, and n is the refractive index of the solvent.The quantum yield at 77 K was calculated using equation 4: 2 where f c is the solvent contraction constant (0.84) at 77 K, and ∫ 77K I(l)∂l and ∫ 293 I(l) 0 ∂l are the areas of the fluorescence emission at 77K and 293 K, respectively.
Ground-state and excited singlet-state Exponential components analysis (reconvolution for fluorescence decay)

Crystallographic analysis
Crystallographic analysis was carried out with a single crystal Bruker APEX II DUO diffractometer using graphitemonochromated MoKα radiation (0.71073 Å) from a sealed tube operating at 1.5 kW and the temperature was set at 173 (± 2) K with an Oxford Instruments Cryojet system.Measurements were recorded by phi and omega scans with exposures of 30 s by frame using APEX2. 3All collected data were corrected for Lorentz and polarization effects. 4ue to very small absorption coefficient, no absorption correction was applied to the intensities.The structure was solved by direct methods and refined applying the fullmatrix least-squares method using SIR97 5 and SHELXL97 6 software programs, respectively.All non-hydrogen atoms were refined with anisotropic displacement parameters.Hydrogen atoms were placed at their idealized positions with distances of 0.93 Å for C-H Ar , 0.97 Å for C-H 2 and 0.96 Å for C-H 3 groups.The U iso values for the hydrogen atoms were fixed at 1.2 times (for aromatic compounds and methylene) and 1.5 times (for methyl) the U eq of the carrier atom (C).ORTEP plot of the molecular structure

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.ORTEP plot of compound 8e (top) and a view of partial packing of 8e showing face-to-face π-stacking between neighbouring quinoline units (bottom, centroids are shown in magenta, see Supplementary Information (SI)).

Figure 4 .
Figure 4. Fluorescence and phosphorescence emission (total emission) of 8d in ethanol at 77 K (blue dots) and fluorescence emission at 293 K (black dots).Insert demonstrates the phosphorescence time decay at 77 K.

Figure 5 .
Figure 5. Transient spectra of 8d in ethanol at different time delay.l exc = 355 nm at 12 mJ.

Figure 6 .
Figure 6.(a) Transient absorption spectrum for 8d in the presence of phenol (1 × 10 -4 mol L -1 ) and (b) transient decay of 8d in the presence and absence of phenol at 390 nm.Inset: growth and decay lifetime of 8d + phenol solution monitored at 390 nm on a short timescale.

Figure S22 .
Figure S22.Fluorescence decay and residuals of quinoline 8d following a bi-exponential fit decay.l exc = 400 nm and l em = 420 nm.

Table 2 .
Photophysical properties of quinolines 8a-e in DCM a Optical measurements condition: DCM, 298 K; b quinine sulphate 1 mol L -1 was used as fluorescent standard (F o F = 0.546, l exc = 337 nm).

Scheme 3 .
Electron transfer mechanism between quinoline and phenol.

Table S1 .
Absorption and emission spectra recorded to the quinoline 8b in acetonitrile ( black), ethanol ( red) and cyclohexane ( blue).Solvent effect on the photophysical properties of 8e

Table S2 .
Crystal data and structure refinement for 8e