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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 144, Issue 30, Pages 13499-13510Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02163
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- Australian Research Council [DP200103036]
- Department of Industry, Innovation Science [AISRF53765]
- UQ Research and Training Program
- UQ International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
- Australian Postgraduate Award
- Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India [DST/INT/AUS/P-74 (2017)]
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The zwitterionic ESIPT material HBT-Fl2 exhibits remarkable features such as low ASE threshold, high ASE photostability, and large Stokes shift. It achieves innovative design tactics through charge redistribution in proton transfer.
The unique four-level photocycle characteristics of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) materials enable population inversion and large spectral separation between absorption and emission through their respective enol and keto forms. This leads to minimal or no self-absorption losses, a favorable feature in acting as an optical gain medium. While conventional ESIPT materials with an enol-keto tautomerism process are widely known, zwitterionic ESIPT materials, particularly those with high photoluminescence, are scarce. Facilitated by the synthesis and characterization of a new family of 2-hydroxyphenyl benzothiazole (HBT) with fluorene substituents, HBT-Fl1 and HBT-Fl2, we herein report the first efficient zwitterionic ESIPT lasing material (HBT-Fl2). The zwitterionic ESIPT HBT-Fl2 not only shows a remarkably low solid-state amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) threshold of 5.3 mu J/cm(2) with an ASE peak at 609 nm but also exhibits high ASE photostability. Coupled with its substantially large Stokes shift (approximate to 236 nm approximate to 10,390 cm(-1)) and an extremely small overlap of excited-state absorption with ASE emission, comprehensive density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT studies reveal the zwitterionic characteristics of HBT-Fl2. In opposition to conventional ESIPT with pi-delocalized tautomerism as observed in analogue HBT-Fl1 and parent HBT, HBT-Fl2 instead shows charge redistribution in the proton transfer through the fluorene conjugation. This structural motif provides a design tactic in the innovation of new zwitterionic ESIPT materials for efficient light amplification in red and longer-wavelength emission.
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