Characterization of the Local Volume Probed by the Side-Chain Ends of Poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) 1-Pyrenemethyl ether methacrylate) Bottle Brushes in Solution Using Pyrene Excimer Fluorescence
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Abstract
Four poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) 1-pyrenemethyl ether methacrylate) [P(PyEGyMA), with y = 3, 5, 8, and 12] samples were synthesized, where each side chain was terminated with a 1-pyrenemethoxy derivative. The efficiency of excimer formation between an excited-state pyrene and a ground-state pyrene was used to assess the conformation of the PyEGy side chains in these polymeric bottle brushes by conducting time-resolved fluorescence measurements in tetrahydrofuran (THF), N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), dioxane, and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). These experiments took advantage of the dependency of the average rate constant ⟨k⟩ of pyrene excimer formation (PEF) on the local pyrene concentration [Py]loc experienced by an excited pyrene bound to the P(PyEGyMA) samples. [Py]loc could be estimated theoretically by assuming that the EGy side chains adopted a Gaussian conformation. Linear plots of ⟨k⟩/fdiff as a function of [Py]loc, where fdiff is the molar fraction of pyrenyl labels forming excimers by diffusion and was introduced to account for residual pyrene aggregation, were obtained in all four solvents, with slopes that depended on solvent viscosity and the probability of PEF upon the diffusive encounter between two pyrenyl labels. Solvent-induced differences in PEF efficiency could be accounted for by determining the bimolecular rate constant kdiff[inter] for intermolecular PEF with the model compound 1-pyrenemethyl diethylene glycol methyl ether in the four solvents. Except for DMSO, which was too polar and led to the segregation of the pyrenyl labels close to the polymethacrylate backbone, the data obtained for all P(PyEGyMA) samples in THF, DMF, and dioxane collapsed on a master line, similar to the one obtained earlier with a series of pyrene-labeled dendrons, when plotting ⟨k⟩/(fdiff × kdiff[inter])-vs-[Py]loc. The ⟨k⟩/(fdiff × kdiff[inter])-vs-[Py]loc master line confirmed the direct relationship that exists between the PEF efficiency and [Py]loc, a relationship that could be used to probe the conformation of highly branched macromolecules in solution.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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