Keywords
fluorene, gold nanoparticles, functionalization, radiative decay engineering.
Abstract
A novel synthetic methodology has been developed for attaching fluorene derivatives, containing different types of electron donating and accepting groups at the 2 and 7 positions, to gold nanoparticles of different sizes by exploiting the affinity of the thiol functional group for gold. The distance between the dye and nanoparticles was varied by introducing two alkyl chains containing different number of carbon atoms at the 9 position on the fluorene ring system. The methodology that was developed gave enough scope for performing Radiative Decay Engineering (RDE) studies, in order to investigate the impact of gold nanoparticles on the singlet oxygen quantum yields of fluorene dyes that already exhibit high singlet oxygen quantum yields as well as high two photon absorption (2PA) cross-sections. The dialkylation of the fluorene derivatives was accomplished by reacting the dye with [alpha], [omega]-dibromoalkanes containing different number of carbon atoms in a biphasic reaction mixture containing toluene and aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in the presence of tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) as a phase transfer catalyst. The bromine atom on the alkyl chains was converted to thioester by reaction with potassium thioacetate. This was followed by the hydrolysis of the thioester to form the thiol moiety. The compounds synthesized were characterized using 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and elemental analysis. Functionalization of gold nanoparticles was attempted by bringing into contact a solution of the thiol compound in toluene and an aqueous gold nanoparticles solution. UV-vis absorbance spectroscopy was used to monitor the progress of the attachment. Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) spectroscopy was used to probe the enhancement of Raman signal by the metallic nanoparticles.
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Graduation Date
2005
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Belfield, Kevin
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Chemistry
Degree Program
Industrial Chemistry
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0000769
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0000769
Language
English
Release Date
January 2006
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Mukundarajan, Sriram, "Synthesis Of Alkylthiol-containing Fluorene Derivatives For Gold Nanoparticle Functionalization" (2005). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 598.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/598