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Jinfan Xiong1,2, Jia-Xi Song1,2, Xiaoyong Chang3
1Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials & CAS-HKU Joint Laboratory on New Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, PR China.
Abstract:
Two-coordinate Au(I) complexes with a donor-metal-acceptor (D-M-A) structure have shown rich luminescent properties. However, charge-neutral dinuclear donor-metal-acceptor type Au(I) complexes featuring aurophilic interactions have been seldom explored. Herein, we describe the structures and photoluminescence properties of two dinuclear Au(I) complexes, namely DiAu-Ph and DiAu-Me. Single crystal X-ray structural analysis of DiAu-Ph reveals a short intramolecular Au-Au distance of 3.224 Å. In dilute solution and doped films, excitation wavelength dependent multiple phosphorescence phenomena were observed for these dinuclear complexes. Theoretical calculations reveal that the aurophilic interaction causes increased contribution of the Au d orbital to the highest occupied molecular orbitals. Thus, the gap between singlet and triplet excited states (ΔEST) is enlarged, which disables the thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). Moreover, the large energy separation (0.45-0.52 eV) and the different orbital configurations between the various excited states result in an inefficient internal conversion, accounting for their multiple phosphorescence properties.
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