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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 6, Issue 14, Pages 3762-3773Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7tc05051h
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- LCRI (Low Carbon Research Institute) (Welsh European Funding Office) [WEFO-80366]
- Bangor University
- The Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq (HCED)
- LCRI
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A series of 4,5-diazafluorene-based (N) conjugated co-oligomers with 9,9-dialkylfluorene (F) or electron-deficient dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide (S) has been synthesized by Pd-catalyzed coupling reaction (FNF, FFNFF, FNoF, SNS, NSN). Cyclic voltammetry studies reveal their improved electron affinity compared to oligofluorene. SNS and NSN co-oligomers showed a decrease of their LUMO energies by 0.37-0.38 eV compared to FNF co-oligomer. Absorption/emission studies showed that all oligomers, except FNoF, are blue-emitting materials ((PL) approximate to 400-450 nm) with high quantum yields of their photoluminescence (phi(PL) = 84-100% in solution and 24-42% in the solid state). FNoF trimer emits in the yellow region with a very low phi(PL) approximate to 1% in dichloromethane solution, but the emission efficiency is substantially increased to phi(PL) = 10-17% in the solid state. FNF co-oligomer was studied as a metal cation responsive colorimetric and fluorescent sensor using a series of mono- and divalent cations and it showed high sensitivity and selectivity toward mercury cations. Upon addition of Hg2+, the blue emission of FNF ((PL) = 404 nm) was quenched and a new, bathochromically shifted (to the green region, (PL) = 507 nm) emission band appeared, which allows this compound to be used as both an ON OFF and OFF ON fluorescent sensor.
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