Hyperconjugation effect on fluorescence enhancement of biomimic disulfide substituted spirooxazine†
Minjie Li,Yumo Zhang,Sicheng Tang,Jin Yang,Yi Wang,Lin Sun,Lan Sheng,Bing Yang,Sean Xiao-An Zhang
Abstract
A remarkable 8-fold enhancement of fluorescence quantum efficiency was obtained for a novel spirooxazine with a disulfide substituent. X-ray analysis on the single crystal structure and quantum chemical calculations helped to confirm that the enhancement came from a spatial hyperconjugation between the disulfide unit with the charged conjugation bone of the molecule.