Yasin, Amina and Nair, Vijayakumar and Assa, Aravindh and Sarkar, Shaheen M. and Hatamimoslehabadi, Maryam and Mitra, Somak and Mohd Hasbi, Ab. Rahim and La, Jeffrey and Roqan, Iman and M. M., Yusoff and Yelleswarapu, Chandr and Rajan, Jose (2020) Meso-Zn(ii)porphyrins of tailored functional groups for intensifying the photoacoustic signal. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8 (25). pp. 8546-8559. ISSN 2050-7526. (Published)
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Abstract
Development of efficient molecular photoacoustic contrast agents plays a significant role in next generation biomedical imaging techniques. This article demonstrates a design criterion for small molecules to exhibit a large photoacoustic effect by density functional theory (DFT) and its experimental validation. The method relies on controlling the effect of resonating structures on the vibrational energies of small molecules such that rapid thermalization pathways exist near higher-order unoccupied molecular orbitals. A series of Zn(II)porphyrin derivatives (Por-Cn-RAm, where n = 12 or 8 and m = 1–4) is designed as a model system by DFT and demonstrated a systematic variation in the absorption coefficients of C–H vibrational modes occurring in the high-frequency spectral region. A systematic decrease in absorption coefficients was observed, and therefore a similar variation in the photoacoustic signals is predicted. To validate the theoretical results, four Zn(II)porphyrin based molecules showing a systematic variation in absorption coefficients, viz.Por-C12-RA1, Por-C12-RA2, Por-C12-RA3, and Por-C8-RA4, are synthesized in good yields (40–70%) and their optoelectronic properties are systematically studied and the effect of resonating structures in these molecules in determining the vibrational energies is discussed. The theoretical predictions are validated by photoacoustic coefficient measurements and photoacoustic tomography. The photoacoustic coefficients and tomographic intensities decreased in the order Por-C12-RA1 > Por-C12-RA2 > Por-C12-RA3 > Por-C8-RA4, as predicted by DFT. A large photoacoustic coefficient is observed for Por-C12-RA1, which is superior to that of existing small molecules. Besides offering a superior molecule for photoacoustic tomography, the present criterion adopted here would enable the design of simpler molecules with superior photoacoustic and other nonlinear optical properties.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | photoacoustic signal, Zn(II)porphyrin |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Industrial Sciences And Technology Institute of Postgraduate Studies |
| Depositing User: | Prof. Dr. Jose Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2021 03:02 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Feb 2021 03:02 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30758 |
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