Face‐to‐Face Orientation of Quasiplanar Donor and Acceptor Enables Highly Efficient Intramolecular Exciplex Fluorescence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Wu ◽  
Weiqiang Liu ◽  
Kai Li ◽  
Gang Cheng ◽  
Jinfan Xiong ◽  
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Author(s):  
Yuki Nakagawa ◽  
Yukihiro Takahashi ◽  
Jun Harada ◽  
Tamotsu Inabe

In the ionic charge-transfer (CT) complex composed of bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (ET) and 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ), C10H8S8·C8Cl2N2O2, the donor and acceptor molecules both form centrosymmetric dimers associated by strong face-to-face π–π interactions. The disordered DDQ molecules form a one-dimensional π-stacked column, while the ET molecules form a two-leg ladder through additional short S...S contacts between adjacent π–π-bonded dimers. The crystal structure of ET–DDQ revealed in this study will provide a valuable example of the two-leg spin ladder system, which has rarely been reported for ET-based CT complexes.


1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 3757-3762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Shinoda ◽  
Hiroshi Tsukube ◽  
Yoshinobu Nishimura ◽  
Iwao Yamazaki ◽  
Atsuhiro Osuka

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Ting Liu ◽  
Weijie Hua ◽  
Hong-Xiang Nie ◽  
Mingxing Chen ◽  
Ze Chang ◽  
...  

Abstract Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) was achieved when electron-rich triphenylene (Tpl) donors (D) were confined to a cage-based porous MOF host (NKU-111) composed of electron-deficient 2,4,6-tri(pyridin-4-yl)-1,3,5-triazine (Tpt) acceptor (A) as the ligand. The spatially-separated D and A molecules in a face-to-face stacking pattern generated strong through-space charge transfer (CT) interactions with a small singlet-triplet excited states energy splitting (∼0.1 eV), which enabled TADF. The resulting Tpl@NKU-111 exhibited an uncommon enhanced emission intensity as the temperature increased. Extensive steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic measurements and first-principles simulations revealed the chemical and electronic structure of this compound in both the ground and low-lying excited states. A double-channel (T1, T2) intersystem crossing mechanism with S1 was found and explained as single-directional CT from the degenerate HOMO-1/HOMO of the guest donor to the LUMO + 1 of one of the nearest acceptors. The rigid skeleton of the compound and effective through-space CT enhanced the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY). A maximum PLQY of 57.36% was achieved by optimizing the Tpl loading ratio in the host framework. These results indicate the potential of the MOFs for the targeted construction and optimization of TADF materials.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Jie Li ◽  
Wei-Rong Cui ◽  
Qiao-Qiao Jiang ◽  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Ru-Ping Liang ◽  
...  

AbstractElectrochemiluminescence (ECL) plays a key role in analysis and sensing because of its high sensitivity and low background. Its wide applications are however limited by a lack of highly tunable ECL luminophores. Here we develop a scalable method to design ECL emitters of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) in aqueous medium by simultaneously restricting the donor and acceptor to the COFs’ tight electron configurations and constructing high-speed charge transport networks through olefin linkages. This design allows efficient intramolecular charge transfer for strong ECL, and no exogenous poisonous co-reactants are needed. Olefin-linked donor-acceptor conjugated COFs, systematically synthesized by combining non-ECL active monomers with C2v or C3v symmetry, exhibit strong ECL signals, which can be boosted by increasing the chain length and conjugation of monomers. The present concept demonstrates that the highly efficient COF-based ECL luminophores can be precisely designed, providing a promising direction toward COF-based ECL phosphors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 3190-3210
Author(s):  
Hao Liu ◽  
Huaizhi Gao ◽  
Jun Lin ◽  
Tasawar Hayat ◽  
Ahmed Alsaedi ◽  
...  

Donor–acceptor integral molecules with donor and acceptor units interlinked by nonconjugated flexible linking units can self-assemble into an ideal bulk heterojunction structure for application in highly efficient polymer solar cells are reviewed.


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