Adjusting and visualizing the stability of an acyl chloride through the delocalization effect and introducing AIEgens

Lu Liu1, Qing Wan1,2, Chen Gui1

  • 1AIE-institute, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Center for Aggregation-Induced Emission, Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates of Guangdong Province, South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou 510640, China. wangzhiming@scut.edu.cn.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 22, 2022
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