Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 62, Issue 26, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202304056
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Arylation; Benzyne; Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder Reaction; Silicon Nanocrystals; Surface Chemistry
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Colloidal silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) have attracted significant attention in optoelectronics and biomedical applications. A metal-free method is demonstrated for directly functionalizing SiNCs with aryl-based ligands. This method allows efficient arylation on silicon surfaces under mild conditions and the resulting aryl-functionalized SiNCs exhibit strong blue emissions with nanosecond-scaled decay.
Colloidal silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) have garnered significant interest in optoelectronics and biomedical applications. Direct arylation provides pathways to enhance the solution processability of particles and manipulate the photophysical and electronic properties of SiNCs. Unfortunately, existing methods employed to prepare aryl-functionalized SiNCs are based on organometallic coupling or transition-metal-catalyzed strategies, which require metal-based reagents for preactivation or the precursors and complicated post-treatment processes for product purification. Herein, we demonstrate a metal-free method that directly functionalizes SiNCs with aryl-based ligands. We design a series of benzyne derivatives formed from the thermal cyclization of predesigned alkynes, allowing efficient arylation on hydride-terminated silicon surfaces under mild conditions. These aryl-functionalized SiNCs exhibit strong blue emissions with nanosecond-scaled decay, suggesting the formation of a new radiative recombination channel on SiNC surfaces.
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