Ligand-Induced Ground- and Excited-State Chirality in Silicon Nanoparticles: Surface Interactions Matter was written by Sujith, Meleppatt;Vishnu, E. Krishnan;Sappati, Subrahmanyam;Oliyantakath Hassan, Muhammed Shafeek;Vijayan, Vinesh;Thomas, K. George. And the article was included in Journal of the American Chemical Society in 2022.Application of 153-94-6 This article mentions the following:
Silicon-based light-emitting materials have emerged as a favorable substitute to various organic and inorganic systems due to silicon’s high natural abundance, low toxicity, and excellent biocompatibility. However, efforts on the design of free-standing silicon nanoparticles with chiral non-racemic absorption and emission attributes are rather scare. Herein, we unravel the structural requirements for ligand-induced chirality in silicon-based nanomaterials by functionalizing with D- and L-isomers of a bifunctional ligand, namely, tryptophan. The structural aspects of these systems are established using high-resolution high-angle annular dark-field imaging in the scanning transmission electron microscopy mode, solid-state NMR, Fourier transform IR, and XPS. Silicon nanoparticles capped with L- and D-isomers of tryptophan displayed pos. and neg. monosignated circular dichroic signals and circularly polarized luminescence indicating their ground- and excited-state chirality. Various studies supported by d. functional theory calculations signify that the functionalization of indole ring nitrogen on the silicon surface plays a decisive role in modifying the chiroptical characteristics by generating emissive charge-transfer states. The chiroptical responses originate from the multipoint interactions of tryptophan with the nanoparticle surface through the indole nitrogen and -CO2– groups that can transmit an enantiomeric structural imprint on the silicon surface. However, chiroptical properties are not observed in phenylalanine- and alanine-capped silicon nanoparticles, which are devoid of Si-N bonds and chiral footprints. Thus, the ground- and excited-state chiroptical in tryptophan-capped silicon nanoparticles originates from the collective effect of ligand-bound emissive charge-transfer states and chiral footprints. Being the first report on the circularly polarized luminescence in silicon nanoparticles, this work will open newer possibilities in the field of chirality. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, H-D-Trp-OH (cas: 153-94-6Application of 153-94-6).
H-D-Trp-OH (cas: 153-94-6) belongs to indole derivatives. Indole exists overwhelmingly in the 1H-indole form as do other simple indoles. Indole plays a fundamental role for QS in E. coli, being one of the signal molecules responsible for the transcription of a variety of genes (gabT, and tnaB ASTD). Application of 153-94-6
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