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Published on: August 21, 2018
Programming the Excited-State Landscape Via Carborane Count for Dual TADF/RTP
Yangtao Shao1, Xubin Wang1, Hexi Wei1
1Shaanxi Key Laboratory of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials, Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Concurrent thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) within one molecular family remain rare. Here we implement carborane-number engineering in o-carborane-functionalized triphenylamines (TPA-1Cb/2Cb/3Cb) to program the S1-Tn landscape (S1 = lowest singlet excited state; Tn = low-lying triplet states). Increasing the carborane count reshapes S1-Tn alignments and facilitates intersystem crossing and Tn-assisted reverse intersystem crossing, while aggregate confinement suppresses nonradiative decay, enabling dual-channel emission. Spectroscopy and transient absorption establish solution-phase TADF for TPA-2Cb/3Cb and solid-state, air-robust TADF/RTP coexistence under ambient atmosphere with ultralong TADF lifetimes of 67.4 ms (TPA-2Cb) and 105.3 ms (TPA-3Cb). TD-DFT based on crystal structures attributes channel allocation to carborane-count-dependent tuning of ΔE(S1-Tn) and finite spin-orbit coupling (SOC), whereas TPA-1Cb remains RTP-dominant due to large S1-T1/T2 separations. These results define a compact route to time-programmable, dual emission and offer a generalizable design principle for building concurrent TADF/RTP in carborane-based luminophores.
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