Isolation and Characterisation of 2-Tert-butyl-8-hydroxyquinoline as a Crystalline Solid and Its Blue Fluorescent Li Complex

Autor: Poopathy Kathirgamanathan, Sivagnanasundram Surendrakumar, Seenivasagam Ravichandran, Alexander J. Blake
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol 2014 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-8434
1687-8442
DOI: 10.1155/2014/510960
Popis: 2-Tert-butyl-8-hydroxyquinoline (2-TB-8-hq) has been isolated as a crystalline solid and its X-ray structure elucidated, resolving three decades of controversy, since it was previously wrongly reported as yellow oil by some other workers. An improved synthetic method has been developed which increases the yield from 20% to 60%. The lithium complex of 2-TB-8-hq is blue emitting and the HOMO and LUMO levels are lowered by 0.86 eV and 0.74 eV, respectively, compared with the parent lithium 8-hydroxyquinolinolate (Li 8-hq).
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