Publications related to Chromophore

Ru(II)-Arene Complexes of Curcumin and Bisdesmethoxycurcumin Metabolites

Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Mouna Hadiji

Curcuminoids and their complexes continue to attract attention in medicinal chemistry, but little attention has been given to their metabolic derivatives. Here, the first examples of (arene)Ru(II) complexes with curcuminoid metabolites, tetrahydrocurcumin ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Structural and analytical identifications of biomolecules by cold ion spectroscopy of non-covalent complexes

Erik Saparbayev

Non-covalent interactions are ubiquitous in nature. The diversity and functionality of these interactions are employed by nature as a universal tool for building the molecular mechanism of life. Although weak, these interactions play a key role in both for ...

EPFL2021

Long‐Lived Photocharges in Supramoelcular Polymers of Low‐Bandgap Chromophores

Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Holger Frauenrath, Daniel Görl, Regina Judith Hafner

Photoinduced charge separation in supramolecular aggregates of π‐conjugated molecules is a fundamental photophysical process, and a key criterion for the development of advanced organic electronics materials. Here, we report on the self‐assembly of novel l ...

2020

Long-lived Photo-Charges in 1D Helical Organic Semiconductor Nanostructures

Regina Judith Hafner

The formation of photoexcited states in organic semiconductors, their separation into long-lived or stable charge carriers, as well as the charge transport are critical processes relevant to several important research fields and emerging technologies. Whil ...

EPFL2018

Cryogenic infrared spectroscopy as a probe of structure and dynamics of biomolecules

Valeriu Scutelnic

The pivotal theory of molecular biology states that the structure of biomolecules is directly related to their function in living systems. In this way, the structural investigation of biological molecules allows understanding and intervening in the fundame ...

EPFL2018

Superweak Coordinating Anion as Superstrong Enhancer of Cyanine Organic Semiconductor Properties

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Antonia Neels, Donatas Gesevicius

The superweak tetrakis(nonafluoro-tert-butoxy)aluminate coordinating anion was employed to introduce pseudo-gas-phase conditions to the 2-[5-(1,3-dihydro-1,3,3-trimethyl-2H-indol-2-ylidene)-1,3-pentadien-1-yl]-1,3,3-trimethyl-3H-indolium chromophore. The r ...

2018

Mechanism of ultrafast non-reactive deactivation of the retinal chromophore in non-polar solvents

Goran Zgrablic

The photoisomerization of the all-trans protonated Schiff base of retinal (SBR+) in solution is highly inefficient. The present theoretical and experimental investigation aims at disclosing the mechanisms of ultrafast, non-reactive relaxation of SBR+ that ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Quantifying Electronic Phenomena in Organic Chromophores

Antonio Prlj

Challenging ground and excited state problems in the chemistry of common organic chromophores are investigated with state-of-the-art quantum chemical methods. We present a comprehensive excited state molecular dynamics analysis of (a) fundamental building ...

EPFL2017

How Rhodopsin Tunes the Equilibrium between Protonated and Deprotonated Forms of the Retinal Chromophore

Ursula Röthlisberger, Siri Camee van Keulen, Alicia Solano

Rhodopsin is a photoactive G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that converts dim light into a signal for the brain, leading to eyesight. Full activation of this GPCR is achieved after passing through several steps of the protein's photoactivation pathway. Ke ...

2017

Giant five-photon absorption from multidimensional core-shell halide perovskite colloidal nanocrystals

Michael Graetzel, Nripan Mathews, Qiang Xu

Multiphoton absorption processes enable many technologically important applications, such as in vivo imaging, photodynamic therapy and optical limiting, and so on. Specifically, higher-order nonlinear absorption such as five-photon absorption offers signif ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Solubility and Crystallizability: Facile Access to Functionalized pi-Conjugated Compounds with Chlorendylimide Protecting Groups

Rosario Scopelliti, Holger Frauenrath, Jan Cornelius Brauer, Jan Gebers, Stéphane Suarez, Damien Rolland, Roman Niklaus Marty, Luca Cervini

Functional pi-conjugated molecules are relevant for the preparation of new organic electronic materials with improved performance. However, their synthesis is often rendered difficult by their inherently low solubility, and the permanent attachment of solu ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

Light absorption in 1D and 2D nanostructured organic semiconductors

Damien Rolland

Organic photovoltaics will be one of the corner stones in solving the increasing world's energy demand issue. For this reason, a better understanding of the detailed mechanisms involved in energy conversion in the employed nanostructured materials is still ...

EPFL2015

Synthetic Approaches to Functional Derivatives of Cycl[3.2.2]Azine-1,2-Dicarboxylic Acid - Perspective Building Blocks for pi-Extended Macrocyclic Compounds

Fedor Zhurkin

One of the actual goals in the field of macrocyclic research is to provide accessible chemically robust compounds with absorption in the NIR spectral region. This requirement can be fulfilled in the case of tetrapyrrolic derivatives such as porphyrins, pht ...

Bentham Science Publ Ltd2015

Origin of the Spectral Shifts among the Early Intermediates of the Rhodopsin Photocycle

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Marilisa Neri, Stefano Vanni, Bruno Araujo Cautiero Horta

A combined strategy based on the computation of absorption energies, using the ZINDO/S semiempirical method, for a statistically relevant number of thermally sampled configurations extracted from QM/MM trajectories is used to establish a one-to-one corresp ...

2014

Generalized QM/MM Force Matching Approach Applied to the 11-cis Protonated Schiff Base Chromophore of Rhodopsin

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Manuel Dömer

We extended a previously developed force matching approach to systems with covalent QM/MM boundaries and describe its user-friendly implementation in the publicly available software package CPMD. We applied this approach to the challenging case of the reti ...

2014

Two-Fold Odd-Even Effect in Self-Assembled Nanowires from Oligopeptide-Polymer-Substituted Perylene Bisimides

Holger Frauenrath, Robin Nigon, Roman Niklaus Marty, Deborah Leite

Organic nanowires are important building blocks for nanoscopic organic electronic devices. In order to ensure efficient charge transport through such nanowires, it is important to understand in detail the molecular parameters that guide self-assembly of pi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Molecular Engineering of Push-Pull Porphyrin Dyes for Highly Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: The Role of Benzene Spacers

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Aswani Yella, Chi-Lun Mai

Porphyrins have drawn much attention as sensitizers owing to the large absorption coefficients of their Soret and Q bands in the visible region. In a donor and acceptor zinc porphyrin we applied a new strategy of introducing 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (BTD) as ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

From Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes to Color Reproduction and Optical Document Security with Invisible Luminescent Inks

Julien Alexandre Andres

The present thesis deals with luminescent compounds based on lanthanide complexes that are suitable for color reproduction and optical document security with invisible luminescent inks. This thesis is divided in two distinct fields: chemistry, which produc ...

EPFL2012

Ultrafast Visible and Ultraviolet Fluorescence Studies of Molecular and Biological Sytems in Solution

Olivier Christian Bräm

A wide variety of physical and chemical processes at the molecular level, as charge or energy transfer, solvation, electronic as well as vibrational relaxation, is at the origin of the biological functionality of proteins. The work reported in this thesis ...

EPFL2011

Spectroscopy and dissociation dynamics of cold, biomolecular ions

Monia Guidi

The function of a peptide is intimately connected to its structure, which in solution is the result of the balance between non-covalent interactions within the molecule and the molecule-solvent interactions. Theory has the power to predict the properties o ...

EPFL2010