Journal
CHEMPHOTOCHEM
Volume 3, Issue 9, Pages 907-915Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201900075
Keywords
aggregation-induced emission; blue emitters; computational photochemistry; conical intersections; excited states
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Funding
- EPSRC [EP/R029385/1]
- QMUL Research-IT
- ARCHER UK National Supercomputing Service [EP/L000202]
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the Queen Mary University of London
- EPSRC [EP/R029385/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Organic fluorophores with an enhanced emission in the condensed phase have great potential for the design of optoelectronic materials. Several propeller-shaped molecules show aggregation-induced emission (AIE), in particular, silole derivatives have attracted wide attention because of their significant quantum yields in the solid state. In this contribution, we investigate the mechanism of AIE of a propeller-shaped blue emitter: 1,2,3,4-tetraphenyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene (TPC). We explore the excited state mechanism in the light of models most commonly used to explain it: restriction of intramolecular motions (RIM) and restricted access to the conical intersection (RACI). Our interpretation is supported by excited state dynamics simulations and the analysis of Huang-Rhys factors and reorganisation energies. We quantify the effects of intermolecular interactions and exciton couplings. The mechanism for TPC is compared with previous investigations of analogue silole compounds. Our systematic investigation highlights the role of conical intersections on the nonradiative decay mechanisms and complementary descriptions provided by the RIM and RACI models.
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