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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 17, Issue 8, Pages 2518-2526Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002227
Keywords
laser chemistry; multiphoton absorption; nonlinear optics; oligofluorenes; photoluminescence
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- GRF, Hong Kong Research Grant Council [HKBU 202408]
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Two series of quadrupolar diphenylamino-endcapped oligofluorenes, PhN-OF(n)-NPh (n=2-5) and PhN-OF(n)-TAZ-OF(n)-NPh (n=1-4), which have an electron-withdrawing 1,2,4-triazole (TAZ) moiety as central core, with D-pi-A-pi-D structural motif (D=donor, A=acceptor), have been synthesized by palladium-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling of 9,9-dibutyl-7-(diphenylamino)-2-fluorenylboronic acid and the corresponding (1,2,4-triazole-based) aryl halide as key step. On pumping with infrared femtosecond lasers, these oligomers showed very strong multiphoton-excited blue photo-luminescence. These D-pi-D and D-pi-A-pi-D quadrupolar oligofluorenes exhibit superior three-photon absorption properties compared to the respective D-pi-A counterparts with a highest three-photon absorption cross-section (sigma(3)) of up to 2.72 x 10(-77) cm(6)s(2). Despite the comparable linear and multiphoton absorption properties of the two types of quadrupolar oligomers PhN-OF(n)-NPh and PhN-OF(n)-TAZ-OF(n)-NPh, only the former exhibit remarkably intense and highly efficient multiphoton-excited frequency-upconverted deep blue lasing, which gives rise to record high lasing efficiency of 0.097% and very narrow of full width at half-maximum of the lasing spectra. Our findings suggest that quadrupolar-type molecules/oligomers are superior for multiphoton excited frequency upconverted lasing to their dipolar counterparts and also provide important guidelines to design highly efficient three-photon absorption molecules for photoluminescence and lasing applications.
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