Abstract
A comparative study is presented of competitive fluorescences of three flavonols, 3-hydroxyflavone, 3,3',4',7-tetrahydroxyflavone (fisetin), and 4'-diethylamino-3-hydroxyflavone (DHF). The normal fluorescence S1-->S0 (400-nm region) is largely replaced by the proton-transfer tautomer fluorescence S'1-->S'0 in the 550-nm region for all three of the flavonols in aprotic solvents at room temperature. For DHF in polar solvents the normal fluorescence becomes a charge-transfer fluorescence (460-500 nm) which competes strongly with the still dominant proton-transfer fluorescence (at 570 nm). In protic solvents, and at 77 K, the interference with intramolecular hydrogen bonding gives rise to greatly enhanced normal fluorescence, lowering the quantum yield of proton-transfer fluorescence. The utility of DHF as a discriminating fluorescence probe for protein binding sites is suggested by the strong dependence of the charge-transfer fluorescence on polarity of the environment and by various static and dynamic parameters of the charge-transfer and proton-transfer fluorescence which can be determined.
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