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Stable Diarylamine-Substituted Tris(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)methyl Radicals: One-Step Synthesis, Near-Infrared Emission, and Redox Chemistry

Journal

CCS CHEMISTRY
Volume 4, Issue 9, Pages 3190-3203

Publisher

CHINESE CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.31635/ccschem.021.202101513

Keywords

tris(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)methyl radical; diarylamine; one-step synthesis; near-infrared emission; redox chemistry

Funding

  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0703200, 2018YFA0209401]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61890940, 52073063, 51903052, 21733003]
  3. Shanghai Pujiang Project [19PJ1400700]
  4. Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [21ZR1409600]
  5. Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at the Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning

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A mild one-step synthesis strategy has been developed to produce a new family of TTM radical derivatives. By introducing different diarylamine substituents on the TTM radicals, the photoluminescence properties and structures can be controlled. The oxidation of the diarylamine-substituted TTM radicals reveals their unusual structures and slow valence tautomerization process.
A mild one-step radical-to-radical synthetic strategy has been developed to directly produce a new family of diarylamine-substituted tris(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) methyl (TTM) radicals TTM-DPA, TTM-DBPA, and TTM-DFA. The obtained TTM radical derivatives are extremely stable during chromatography purification and long-term storage in the solid state. Upon simply introducing an electron-donating diphenylamine on the electron-withdrawing TTM radical, TTM-DPA exhibits a maximum photoluminescence (PL) wavelength at 705 nm in cyclohexane with a high PL quantum yield (PLQY) of 65%. With further extension of the conjugation of the diarylamine, the PL maximum bathochromically shifts to 748 nm for TTM-DBPA and 809 nm for TTM-DFA. Most importantly, upon the oxidation of the diarylamine-substituted TTM radicals by NO center dot SbF6, the unusual quinoidal structures of their iminium monocations accompanied by a slow valence tautomerization process and restricted rotation are identified by NMR spectroscopies and single-crystal X-ray analysis. This study will pave the way to the design novel high-performance organic radical emitters and facilitate the understanding of charge transfer and transport in TTM radical-related applications. [GRAPHICS]

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