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Squeezing Fluorescent Dyes into Nanoscale Containers—The Supramolecular Approach to Radiative Decay Engineering

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Fluorescence of Supermolecules, Polymers, and Nanosystems

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Supramolecular radiative decay engineering allows systematic variations of the radiative decayrates, and therefore changes in the fluorescence lifetimes and intensities. Depending on whetherfluorescent dyes are immersed in macrocyclic host molecules with low or high polarizability, reducedor enhanced fluorescence lifetimes may result. Solvatochromic probes to “measure” thepolarizability inside such molecular container compounds are now at hand. Cucurbiturils, for example,are water-soluble host molecules, which possess a cavity with an exceptionally low polarizability,close to the gas phase. Placing fluorescent dyes inside cucurbiturils allows one to create in aqueoussolution a unique microenvironment, which approaches that of the gas phase and leads to unprecedentedphotophysical behavior. Accordingly, complexation by cucurbituril leads to prolonged fluorescencelifetimes, for 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene (DBO) up to 1 μs, the same as that foundin the gas phase.

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Nau, W.M., Hennig, A., Koner, A.L. (2007). Squeezing Fluorescent Dyes into Nanoscale Containers—The Supramolecular Approach to Radiative Decay Engineering. In: Berberan-Santos, M.N. (eds) Fluorescence of Supermolecules, Polymers, and Nanosystems. Springer Series on Fluorescence, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/4243_2007_007

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