Blue-shifted emission and enhanced quantum efficiency via π-bridge elongation in carbazole

Blue-shifted emission and enhanced quantum efficiency via π-bridge elongation in carbazole–carborane dyads

Published:2016 Issue:23 Volume:18 Page:15719-15726
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Wang Zhaojin¹²³⁴,Jiang Peng¹²³⁴,Wang Tianyu¹²³⁴,Moxey Graeme J.⁵⁶⁷⁸,Cifuentes Marie P.¹²³⁴⁵,Zhang Chi¹²³⁴,Humphrey Mark G.¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemical and Material Engineering

2. Jiangnan University

3. Wuxi 214122

4. China

5. Research School of Chemistry

6. Australian National University

7. Canberra

8. Australia

Abstract

Carbazole–carborane linear and V-shaped dyads display unusual blue-shifts in charge-transfer (CT) emission on π-system lengthening; the linear dyads luminesce via a combination of local excited and CT emission, with quantum efficiencies up to 86% in solution.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/CP/C6CP02870E

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