TY - JOUR A1 - Emmerling, Franziska A1 - Bricks, J. L. A1 - Resch-Genger, Ute A1 - Kraus, Werner A1 - Schulz, Burkhard A1 - Li, Yanqin A1 - Reck, Günter T1 - Influence of the donor substituent and acceptor alkylation on the structure-analytical properties of mono- and bifunctional biphenyl-type fluorescent reporters N2 - A systematic structural investigation of R-phenyl-substituted 2,2':6',2"-terpyridines, a family of mono- and bifunctional charge transfer (CT)-operated fluorescent reporters for protons and metal ions, is presented. These molecules are equipped with non-binding and analyte coordinating donor substituents R (R = CF3, H, OMe, OH, DMA, A15C5 equaling monoaza-15-crown-5) of various donor strength and display CT-controlled spectroscopic properties and communication of analyte–receptor interactions. The crystal structures of the neutral fluorescent probes are compared to the structures of their terpyridine-alkylated or -protonated counterparts that represent model systems for acceptor protonation or cation coordination. The aim is here a better understanding of the complexation-induced structural and spectroscopic changes and the identification of common packing motifs of bpb-R thereby taking into account the importance of terpyridine building blocks for the construction of supramolecular systems and coordination arrays revealing π–π interactions. KW - Biphenyl KW - Terpyridine KW - Crystal structure KW - Fluorescent probe KW - Charge transfer KW - Bifunctional PY - 2008 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2007.03.025 SN - 0022-2860 SN - 1872-8014 SN - 0377-046X VL - 874 IS - 1-3 SP - 14 EP - 27 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-17087 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -