scholarly journals Searching Building Blocks with Large Excited-State Gaps in Five-memebered Heterocyclic Rings by Aromaticity Strategy

Author(s):  
Qi Sun

Organic molecules with large gap between the excited singlet/triplet states can be applied in hot exciton emission and singlet fission to beat the spin statistics limit in optoelectronic devices. Herein, a novel strategy is proposed for achieving large triplet-triplet gap (E(T1T2)) and singlet-triplet gap (E(S1T1)) by manipulating the aromaticity of the low-lying excited states. Partially conjugated five-membered heterocyclic rings are found to naturally have low E(T1) owing to high aromaticity obeying Baird’s Rule. Utilizing such ring (pyrazoline) as a bridge and selecting various donor and acceptor moieties, numbers of derivatives have been theoretically designed with tunable emission colors, significantly large E(T1T2) and E(S1T1), and satisfying E(T2)>E(S1)≥2E(T1). The ultrafast spectroscopy and sensitization measurements for one of them with blue fluorescence (named TPA-DBPrz) confirm the calculated prediction. This work opens a new avenue and provides molecular units to develop high-efficiency optoelectronic materials.

Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pollice ◽  
Pascal Friederich ◽  
Cyrille Lavigne ◽  
Gabriel dos Passos Gomes ◽  
Alán Aspuru-Guzik

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 3602-3615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan S. Ward ◽  
Andrew Danos ◽  
Patrycja Stachelek ◽  
Mark A. Fox ◽  
Andrei S. Batsanov ◽  
...  

This work shows that trifluoromethyl (CF3) substituents can be used to increase the rate of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in conjugated organic molecules by tuning the excitonic character of the singlet and triplet excited states.


The concentration dependences of the yield of excited triplet states, G ( 3 S*), and the concentration dependences of the relative yield of radiation-induced fluorescence obtained on pulse radiolysis of solutions of naphthalene, anthracene, pyrene and 2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO) are reported. The yields of excited singlet state solute molecules, G ( 1 S*), formed on pulse radiolysis of naphthalene-cyclohexane and naphthalene-benzene solutions has been determined by comparing the intensity of the radiation-induced fluorescence with that obtained on photo-excitation. It is concluded that intersystem crossing (i.s.c.) from the excited singlet state is an important process in the formation of the high yield of triplet excited states of the solute. Under certain conditions this process accounts for up to 50 % of G ( 3 S*) in cyclohexane and the entire G ( 3 S*) in benzene solutions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 7828-7831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Yuel Kwon ◽  
Geon Hyeong Lee ◽  
Young Sik Kim

Novel thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials (ACR-OXD, 2ACR-OXD) with 9,10- dihydro-9,9-dimethylacridine (ACR) as an electron donor and oxadiazole derivative (OXD) as an electron acceptor were designed and theoretically investigated for blue OLED emitter. Using DFT and TDDFT calculations, we gained the electron distribution of HOMO and LUMO and the energy of the lowest singlet (S1) and the lowest triplet (T1) excited states. In comparison with the previously reported a xanthen derivative (ACR-XTN), ACR-OXD exhibits a promising blue TADF emitter because of destabilizing the LUMO of ACR-OXD by the change of the electron accepting group and maintaining the steric hindrance between donor and acceptor moieties which lead to efficient TADF due to the small energy gap between the lowest excited singlet (S1) state and the lowest excited triplet (T1) state.


Molecules ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 2779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Alberto ◽  
Bruna De Simone ◽  
Gloria Mazzone ◽  
Nino Russo ◽  
Marirosa Toscano

The photophysical properties of a series of nitrated and halogenated phosphorus tritolylcorrole complexes were studied in dichloromethane solvent by using the density functional theory. Particular emphasis was given to the absorption spectra, the energy gap between the excited singlet and triplet states, and the magnitude of the spin-orbit couplings for a series of possible intersystem crossing channels between those excited states. The proposed study provides a better description of the photophysical properties of these systems while giving insights into their possible use as photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy.


Synthesis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ze-Yu Tian ◽  
Yu Ma ◽  
Cheng-Pan Zhang

Application of alkylsulfonium salts as alkyl transfer reagents in organic synthesis has reemerged over the past years. Numerous heteroatom- and carbon-centered nucleophiles, alkenes, arenes, alkynes, organometallic reagents, and others were readily alkylated by alkylsulfonium salts under mild conditions. The reactions feature convenience, high efficiency, readily accessible and structurally diversified alkylation reagents, good functional group tolerance, and a wide range of substrate types, allowing for facile synthesis of various useful organic molecules from the commercially available building blocks. This review summarizes the alkylation reactions using either isolated or in situ formed alkylsulfonium salts via nucleophilic substitution, transition-metal-catalyzed reactions, and photoredox processes.


1974 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-530
Author(s):  
Oskar E. Polansky

In spite of the complete neglect of spins in HMO theory different character orders are obtained for the lowest excited singlet and triplet states. Since 3φʟ* > 1φʟ*, possibly the typical reaction paths of tripletts are mainly determined by electronic factors


1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 1338-1344 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Jackson ◽  
A. J. Yarwood

Vibrationally excited singlet and triplet states of 2,3-pentanedione are formed by photolysis at 365 nm. The processes removing these excited states in the gas phase are studied by measuring the fluorescence and phosphorescence yields. Fluorescence can occur from the vibrationally excited, as well as the vibrationally equilibrated, singlet state. The fluorescence and phosphorescence data are considered in terms of mechanisms which involve either weak or strong collisions. Although the data cannot distinguish between the alternatives, there are two significant conclusions. The fluorescence data require that emission occur from at least two levels in the singlet manifold. To explain the phosphorescence data, the highest emitting singlet level must not lead to a vibrationally equilibrated triplet state.


2011 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nithyanandhan Jayaraj ◽  
Steffen Jockusch ◽  
Lakshmi S. Kaanumalle ◽  
N. J. Turro ◽  
V. Ramamurthy

This manuscript is concerned with the opening and closing of a capsuleplex made up of organic guest molecules and two cavitand molecules known as octaacid (OA). The capsuleplex is loosely held together in water through weak interactions. We have investigated the opening–closing of the OA capsuleplex by monitoring the quenching of excited singlet and (or) triplet states of nine different guest molecules encapsulated within a capsule by molecular oxygen that is dissolved in water surrounding the capsule. The rate constants for oxygen quenching of the excited guest molecules were estimated by monitoring the intensity of fluorescence/phosphorescence or lifetimes of excited states of guest molecules in the presence of different concentrations of oxygen in water. Guest molecules were chosen such that one could probe the opening–closing process during a time range of 0.05 to 922 µs. We believe that the oxygen quenching constant reflects the accessibility of oxygen to the guest enclosed within the OA capsuleplex, and this in turn depends on the capsule opening–closing rate constant. Based on the quenching studies, we conclude that guests whose lifetimes are shorter than 5 µs are inaccessible to oxygen. Results presented in this report suggest that the extent and time scale for opening depends on the guest.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujie Tu ◽  
Junkai Liu ◽  
Haoke Zhang ◽  
Qian Peng ◽  
Jacky W. Y. Lam ◽  
...  

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) is an unusual photophysical phenomenon and provides an effective and advantageous strategy for the design of highly emissive materials in versatile applications such as sensing, imaging, and theragnosis. "Restriction of intramolecular motion" is the well-recognized working mechanism of AIE and have guided the molecular design of most AIE materials. However, it sometimes fails to be workable to some heteroatom-containing systems. Herein, in this work, we take more than one excited state into account and specify a mechanism –"restriction of access to dark state (RADS)" – to explain the AIE effect of heteroatom-containing molecules. An anthracene-based zinc ion probe named APA is chosen as the model compound, whose weak fluorescence in solution is ascribed to the easy access from the bright (π,π*) state to the closelying dark (n,π*) state caused by the strong vibronic coupling of the two excited states. By either metal complexation or aggregation, the dark state is less accessible due to the restriction of the molecular motion leading to the dark state and elevation of the dark state energy, thus the emission of the bright state is restored. RADS is found to be powerful in elucidating the photophysics of AIE materials with excited states which favor non-radiative decay, including overlap-forbidden states such as (n,π*) and CT states, spin-forbidden triplet states, which commonly exist in heteroatom-containing molecules.


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