Conspectus Molecular fluorescent probes are an essential experimental tool in many fields,
ranging from biology to chemistry and materials science, to study the localization and other …

Photoacids show a strong increase in acidity in the first electronic excited state, enabling
real‐time studies of proton transfer in acid‐base reactions, proton transport in energy …

The relation between the chemical structure and the mechanical behavior of molecular
machines is of paramount importance for a rational design of superior nanomachines. Here …

The phenomenon of photoacidity, ie, an increase in acidity by several orders of magnitude
upon electronic excitation, is frequently encountered in aromatic alcohols capable of …

The ultrafast proton transfer (PT) process in the excited state of 7-(2′-pyridyl) indole
(abbreviated as 7PyIn) has been elucidated by on-the-fly dynamics simulations using the …

This work employs the correlated wavefunction-based methods ADC (2) and CC2 in
combination with the implicit solvent model COSMO to calculate the UV/Vis absorption and …

Excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) to solvent is often explained according to the two-step
Eigen–Weller model including a contact ion pair (CIP*) as an intermediate, but general …

Ultrafast intramolecular proton transfers of 1, 2-dihydroxyanthraquinone (alizarin-h 2) and its
deuterated product (alizarin-d 2) in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) have been investigated by …

This work applies the thermodynamic Förster cycle to theoretically investigate the p K a*,
ie, excited-state p K a values of pyranine-derived superphotoacids developed by Jung and …

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) has shown great potential as a
mechanism for harvesting low-lying triplet excited states in organic molecules and is …