Molecular design of fluorescent compounds as fluorescent molecular probes and luminescent materials: Utilizing excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) process
1. To tune the electronic and optical properties of target ESIPT molecules using the combined theoretical and experimental studies.
2. To provide useful information such as calculated orbital energy, electronic transition and optical properties of ESIPT dyes both absorption and emission to experimentalist for understanding in the molecular level.
3 To study the solvachromism and charge transfer coupled reaction of the new ESIPT molecules.
4 To develop and design new efficient ESIPT based dyes on the well-known derivative HBO and HBT molecules using the electronic and optical properties from our known target molecules.
