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4-Azafluorenone and α-Carboline Fluorophores with Green and Violet/Blue Emission
Marek Cigáň1, Peter Danko2, Henrich Brath2
1Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Comenius University, Ilkovičova 6, Mlynská dolina CH-2, SK-842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia. marek.cigan@uniba.sk.
Abstract:
The emission properties of three 4-azafluorenone and five new α-carboline fluorophores in both solution and thin solid films were investigated. Fluorescence of the azafluorenone is clearly enhanced in thin solid films due to the presence of phenyl/biphenyl rotors, and these derivatives can be classified as green Aggregation-Induced Emission luminogens (AIEgens) with a non-emissive heteroaromatic core structure. Compared to azafluorenones, emission of α-carbolines is hypsochromically shifted to the blue region of the electromagnetic spectrum, and most of these derivatives exhibit strong violet-blue fluorescence in both solution and thin solid film layers. Further, the effective mobility and electroluminescence of new α-carbolines were investigated in prepared organic field-effect transistors and organic light-emitting diodes, respectively.
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