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Fang Wang1, Daniel Song1, Diane A Dickie1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
Abstract:
Emissive β-diketones (bdks) and difluoroboron complexes (BF2 bdks) show multi-stimuli responsive luminescence in both solution and the solid state. A series of bdk ligands and boron coordinated dyes were synthesized with different cyclic amine substituents in the 4-position to explore ring size effects on various luminescent properties, including solvatochromism, viscochromism, aggregation-induced emission (AIE), mechanochromic luminescence (ML) and halochromism. Red-shifted absorption and emission were observed in CH2 Cl2 for both bdk ligands and boron dyes with increasing substituent ring size. The compounds displayed bathochromic emission in more polar solvents, and higher fluorescence intensity in more viscous media. The AIE compounds exhibited enhanced emission when aggregated. For solid-state properties, a large emission wavelength shift was shown for the piperidine substituted bdk after melt quenching on weighing paper. Large blue-shifted emissions were observed in all the boron dye spin cast films after trifluoroacetic acid vapor annealing, and the original emissions were partially recovered after triethylamine vapor treatment.
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