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She P, Qin Y, Zhou Y, Zheng X, Li F, Liu S, Ma Y, Zhao Q, Wong WY. Photoactivated Circularly Polarized Luminescent Organic Radicals in Doped Amorphous Polymer. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202403660. [PMID: 38465907 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202403660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
Abstract
Luminescent organic radicals, especially those with photoactivated circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) features, hold great significance for cutting-edge optoelectronic applications, but their development still remains a challenge. In this study, we propose a novel strategy to achieve photoactivated CPL radicals by bonding two phosphine centers within an axial chiral system, yielding a compound of R/S-5,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)-4,4'-bibenzo[d][1,3]dioxole (R/S-BDP). The photoactivated R/S-BDP molecules in polymer matrix display a robust quantum yield of 19.8 % and a dissymmetry factor (glum) of 1.2×10-4, marking this work as the first example of photoactivated CPL radicals. Furthermore, the glum is improved to 1.0×10-2 by using a liquid crystal as host. Experimental and theoretical analyses reveal that R/S-BDP molecules, endowed with double phosphine cores in axial chirality, offer a direct way for intramolecular electron transfer upon photoirradiation. This leads to the generation of radical ionic pairs, which subsequently trigger the donor-acceptor arrangement through intermolecular electron transfer, thereby resulting in stable radical emission. The extended photoactivated BDP-F exhibits a remarkably high quantum efficiency of 57.8%. Ultimately, the distinctive photo-responsive CPL radical luminescence has been successfully used for information displays and anti-counterfeiting.
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Affiliation(s)
- Pengfei She
- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Research Institute for Smart Energy., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, P. R. China
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 518057, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Research Institute for Smart Energy., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, P. R. China
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 518057, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays &, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) &, Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Research Institute for Smart Energy., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, P. R. China
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 518057, P. R. China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212100, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays &, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) &, Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays &, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) &, Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays &, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) &, Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Research Institute for Smart Energy., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, P. R. China
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 518057, P. R. China
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Yang B, Yan S, Zhang Y, Ban S, Ma H, Feng F, Huang W. Double-Model Decay Strategy Integrating Persistent Photogenic Radicaloids with Dynamic Circularly Polarized Doublet Radiance and Triplet Afterglow. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:7668-7678. [PMID: 38451846 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
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Organic phosphors integrating circularly polarized persistent luminescence (CPPL) across the visible range are widespread for applications in optical information encryption, bioimaging, and 3D display, but the pursuit of color-tunable CPPL in single-component organics remains a formidable task. Herein, via in situ photoimplanting radical ion pairing into axial chiral crystals, we present and elucidate an unprecedented double-module decay strategy to achieve a colorful CPPL through a combination of stable triplet emission from neutral diphosphine and doublet radiance from photogenic radicals in an exclusive crystalline framework. Owing to the photoactivation-dependent doublet radiance component and an inherent triplet phosphorescence in the asymmetric environment, the CPL vision can be regulated by altering the photoactivation and observation time window, allowing colorful glow tuning from blue and orange to delayed green emission. Mechanism studies clearly reveal that this asymmetric electron migration environment and hybrid n-π* and π-π* instincts are responsible for the afterglow and radical radiance at ambient conditions. Moreover, we demonstrate the applications of colorful CPPL for displays and encryption via manipulation of both excitation and observation times.
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- Bo Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen 518057, P. R. China
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Mizuno A, Matsuoka R, Mibu T, Kusamoto T. Luminescent Radicals. Chem Rev 2024; 124:1034-1121. [PMID: 38230673 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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Organic radicals are attracting increasing interest as a new class of molecular emitters. They demonstrate electronic excitation and relaxation dynamics based on their doublet or higher multiplet spin states, which are different from those based on singlet-triplet manifolds of conventional closed-shell molecules. Recent studies have disclosed luminescence properties and excited state dynamics unique to radicals, such as highly efficient electron-photon conversion in OLEDs, NIR emission, magnetoluminescence, an absence of heavy atom effect, and spin-dependent and spin-selective dynamics. These are difficult or sometimes impossible to achieve with closed-shell luminophores. This review focuses on luminescent organic radicals as an emerging photofunctional molecular system, and introduces the material developments, fundamental properties including luminescence, and photofunctions. Materials covered in this review range from monoradicals, radical oligomers, and radical polymers to metal complexes with radical ligands demonstrating radical-involved emission. In addition to stable radicals, transiently formed radicals generated in situ by external stimuli are introduced. This review shows that luminescent organic radicals have great potential to expand the chemical and spin spaces of luminescent molecular materials and thus broaden their applicability to photofunctional systems.
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- Asato Mizuno
- Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
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- Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Shonan Village, HayamaKanagawa 240-0193, Japan
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- Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
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- Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Shonan Village, HayamaKanagawa 240-0193, Japan
- JST-PRESTO, 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
- Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Zheng C, Deng J, Qi Y, Sun C, Cui D, Chen C, Zhu C, Wang S, Yuan J, Xie G, Li P, Chen R. Rational Design of Bipolar Host and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials in Donor-Acceptor Molecular Architecture: A Theoretical Study. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:525-531. [PMID: 38194489 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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Donor-acceptor (D-A) molecules have drawn massive attention recently in the design of high-performance materials, but the underlying reasons for the magic abilities of D-A architecture in building very different organic semiconductors are still unclear. Here, based on a series of experimentally bipolar host and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules with the same donor but different acceptor units, it was found that TADF emitters have more effective charge transfer between donor and acceptor units than bipolar host molecules. More efficient conjugation effects between the donor and acceptor units of host materials were identified from the lower dihedral angles of the D-A structure, smaller and even negative charge transfer amount, shorter charge-transfer length, and larger hole-electron overlap extent. These findings with in-depth insights into different interaction models of donor and acceptor units shed important light on the molecular design of TADF emitters and bipolar materials in a D-A architecture.
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- Chao Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
- Engineering Technology Training Center, Nanjing Vocational University of Industry Technology, 1 Yangshan North Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices and Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China
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