2017 journal article

Photophysical Characterization of the Naturally Occurring Dioxobacteriochlorin Tolyporphin A and Synthetic Oxobacteriochlorin Analogues

PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY, 93(5), 1204–1215.

By: D. Hood *, D. Niedzwiedzki *, R. Zhang  n, Y. Zhang  n, J. Dai *, E. Miller n , D. Bocian *, P. Williams *, J. Lindsey  n, D. Holten *

MeSH headings : Cyanobacteria / chemistry; Photochemistry; Porphyrins / chemistry; Spectrometry, Fluorescence; Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
TL;DR: The photophysical characterization is reported of tolyporphin A and two synthetic analogues, an oxobacteriochlorin and a dioxobacterium‐containing culture known as HT‐58‐2, which generally exhibits spectral and photophysical features resembling those of chlorophyll a. (via Semantic Scholar)
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AbstractTolyporphins are tetrapyrrole macrocycles produced by a cyanobacterium‐containing culture known as HT‐58‐2. Tolyporphins A–J are free base dioxobacteriochlorins, whereas tolyporphin K is an oxochlorin. Here, the photophysical characterization is reported of tolyporphin A and two synthetic analogues, an oxobacteriochlorin and a dioxobacteriochlorin. The characterization (in toluene, diethyl ether, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, 1‐pentanol, 2‐butanone, ethanol, methanol, N,N‐dimethylformamide and dimethylsulfoxide) includes static absorption and fluorescence spectra, fluorescence quantum yields and time‐resolved data. The data afford the lifetime of the lowest singlet excited state and the yields of the nonradiative decay pathways (intersystem crossing and internal conversion). The three macrocycles exhibit only modest variation in spectroscopic and excited‐state photophysical parameters across the solvents. The long‐wavelength (Qy) absorption band of tolyporphin A appears at ~680 nm and is remarkably narrow (full‐width‐at‐half‐maximum ~7 nm). The position of the long‐wavelength (Qy) absorption band of tolyporphin A (~680 nm) more closely resembles that of chlorophyll a (662 nm) than bacteriochlorophyll a (772 nm). The absorption spectra of tolyporphins B–I, K (which were available in minute quantities) are also reported in methanol; the spectra of B–I closely resemble that of tolyporphin A. Taken together, tolyporphin A generally exhibits spectral and photophysical features resembling those of chlorophyll a.