Aggregation of an n-pi* Molecule Induces Fluorescence Turn-on
- 관리정보기술 faculty
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- 발행년도 2017
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000144603
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02797
초록/요약
Although n-pi* molecules can serve as electroluminescent materials because of the harvesting of singlet and triplet excitons through El-Sayed-rule-allowed reverse intersystem crossing, the weak fluorescence emissions of such molecules have prevented applications into devices. We have discovered a 1 order of magnitude enhancement of the fluorescence of a prototypical n-pi* fluorophore, 7-phenylcoumarin (PC), upon aggregation. We performed a mechanistic study consisting of structural, photophysical, and quantum chemical investigations, and found that the aggregation positioned the fluorescent electronic state below the nonemissive tripletn-pi* transition state. Our studies, for the first time, demonstrate intramolecular geometry and intermolecular arrangements in the solid state to be significant factors in the photoluminescence quantum yields of n-pi* fluorophores.
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