Investigation and Control of Single Molecular Structures of Meso- Meso Linked Long Porphyrin Arrays

J Phys Chem B. 2018 May 17;122(19):5121-5125. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b00213. Epub 2018 May 8.

Abstract

We have investigated conformational structures of meso- meso linked porphyrin arrays (Z n) by single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. Modulation depths ( M values) were measured by excitation polarization fluorescence spectroscopy. The M value decreases from 0.85 to 0.46 as the number of porphyrin units increases from 3 to 128, indicating that longer arrays exhibit coiled structures. Such conformational changes depending on the length have been confirmed by coarse-grained simulation. The histograms of M values and traces of centroid position of emitting sites by localization microscopy showed that the structures of longer arrays changed to more stretched after solvent vapor annealing with tetrahydrofuran.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't