Journal
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 514-519Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7qm00530j
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- MEXT [JP26102002]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP26288020]
- ACT-C, JST [JPMJCR12YZ]
- Ogasawara Foundation for the Promotion of Science Engineering
- Iketani Science and Technology Foundation
- POSTECH
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26102002, 16K13960, 17K14458] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Tris(2-hydroxyphenyl)triazasumanene ((A)-(+)-1), a bowl-shaped molecule, which possesses 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)pyridine moieties, was successfully synthesised. (A)-(+)-1 showed a single peak emission in CH2Cl2, which overlapped with the emission of the triazasumanene skeleton and diminished at a high concentration, corresponding to the formation of the excited enol form. In contrast, single crystals of (A)-(+)-1 exhibited a dual emission with a large Stokes shift, indicating the presence of the excited keto form by the excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) process. In the solution of (A)-(+)-1 containing a mixture of a large amount of a poor solvent (hexane or MeOH) and a small amount of CH2Cl2, colloidal aggregates emerged with the continuous increment of emission intensity by further addition of the poor solvent, demonstrating aggregation-induced enhanced emission (AIEE). The analysis of the morphology and the structure of the aggregates using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) revealed the well-ordered structure of the aggregates, which possessed a molecular packing pattern similar to that of an (A)-(+)-1 single crystal.
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