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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 56, Issue 5, Pages 1234-1238Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201610723
Keywords
intramolecular strain; macrocycles; organic electronics; single-molecule spectroscopy
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- European Research Council [305020]
- DFG [SFB 813, GRK 1570]
- European Research Council (ERC) [305020] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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pi-Conjugated segments, chromophores, are the electronically active units of polymer materials used in organic electronics. To elucidate the effect of the bending of these linear moieties on elementary electronic properties, such as luminescence color and radiative rate, we introduce a series of molecular polygons. The p-system in these molecules becomes so distorted in bichromophores (digons) that these absorb and emit light of arbitrary polarization: any part of the chain absorbs and emits radiation with equal probability. Bending leads to a cancellation of transition dipole moment (TDM), increasing excited-state lifetime. Simultaneously, fluorescence shifts to the red as radiative transitions require mixing of the excited state with vibrational modes. However, strain can become so large that excited-state localization on shorter units of the chain occurs, compensating TDM cancellation. The underlying correlations between shape and photophysics can only be resolved in single molecules.
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