Salt–cocrystal continuum for photofunction modulation: stimuli-responsive fluorescence color-tuning of pyridine-modified intramolecular charge-transfer dyes and acid complexes

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (29) ◽  
pp. 8847-8854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshio Yano ◽  
Toshikazu Ono ◽  
Sou Hatanaka ◽  
Daniel T. Gryko ◽  
Yoshio Hisaeda

A series of acid–base complexes reveal ΔpKa value and the crystalline environment determine the extent of proton transfer, which governs the intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) strength of the complexes and tunes the photoluminescence properties.

RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (52) ◽  
pp. 29589-29597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhui Han ◽  
Xiaochun Liu ◽  
Chaofan Sun ◽  
You Li ◽  
Hang Yin ◽  
...  

Harnessing ingenious modification of molecular structure to regulate excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) and intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) characteristics holds great promise in fluorescence sensing and imaging.


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