Post-synthesis from Lewis acid–base interaction: an alternative way to generate light and harvest triplet excitons

Autor: Hengjia Liu, Guohua Xie
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 825-836 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1860-5397
DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.18.83
Popis: The changes in absorption and emission of fluorescent materials with the introduction of Lewis acids have been frequently observed due to either physical or chemical interactions. In this mini-review, we elaborate how Lewis acids adjust the optical properties and the bandgap of luminescent materials by simple coordination reactions. It is common that fluorescent materials containing Lewis basic nitrogen heterocycles are more likely to provide the feasible band gap modulation. The essence of such phenomenon originates from Lewis acid–base coordination and adducts, which highly depends on the electron-accepting property of the Lewis acids. This intermolecular mechanism, considered as post-synthesis of new luminescent compounds offers promising applications in sensing and electroluminescence by manipulating the frontier molecular orbital energy levels of organic conjugated materials, simply based on Lewis acid–base chemistry.
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