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Royal Society of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 45(17), p. 30398-30403, 2015

DOI: 10.1039/c5cp05236j

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Fluorescence from an H-aggregated Naphthalenediimide based peptide: Photophysical and Computational investigation of this Rare Phenomenon

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Abstract

Fluorescence associated with J-aggregated naphthalenediimides (NDIs) is common. However, in this study an NDI based synthetic peptide molecule is found to form a fluorescent H-aggregate in a chloroform (CHCl3)-methylcyclohexane (MCH) mixture. An attempt has been made to explain the unusual fluorescence property of this H-aggregated NDI derivative. Time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) shows that the average lifetime of the NDI based molecule is on the order of a few nanoseconds. It is revealed from the computational study that the transition from the second exited state (S2) to the ground energy state (S0) is responsible for the fluorescence as S1 is a dark state. Such rare violation of Kasha's rule accounts for the unusual fluorescence properties of this type of NDI molecule in the H-aggregated state.