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Theoretical Investigation on Firefly Oxyluciferin Analogs Bearing an Amino Group Used as Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Materials

  • Min Chungang ,
  • Li Zuosheng ,
  • Cui Xiaoying ,
  • Yang Xikun ,
  • Huang Shaojun ,
  • Wang Shaohua ,
  • Ren Aimin
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  • a Research Center for Analysis and Measurement, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093;
    b State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023

Received date: 2014-09-03

  Revised date: 2014-10-13

  Online published: 2014-10-21

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21473071, 21173099, 21363012, 51363012, 51374117), the National Key Basic Research Program (973 Program, No. 2013CB834801), the Special Funding to Basic Scientific Research Projects for Central Colleges, the Applied Basic Research Plans Program of Yunnan Province (No. 2011FZ040), the Scientific Research Fund of Yunnan Provincial Education Department (No. 2012Y545), the Training Foundation for Talents of Kunming University of Science and Technology (No. KKSY201232040) and the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.

Abstract

Firefly oxyluciferin has great potential application in organic light-emitting devices, because of the high efficiency and wide range of multicolor light from green to red. To gain an insight into the structure-property relationships, a set of firefly oxyluciferin analogs bearing an amino group with benzopyran, biphenyl, bipyridine, phenanthrene, phenanthroline, fluorine and coronene instead of benzothiazole ring were designed. In this study, a systematic investigation into them was carried out using the density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory methods. The calculated values show that bipyridylaminooxyluciferin (BPAOL) and orthophenanthrolylaminooxyluciferin (PMAOL) with nitrogen atom have smaller the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies, larger ionization potential (IP) and electron affinity (EA) values than biphenylaminooxyluciferin (BIAOL) and phenanthrylaminooxyluciferin (PHAOL) with carbon atom. Compound aminooxyluciferin (AOL), BIAOL, BPAOL, PHAOL, PMAOL, fluorenylaminooxyluciferin (FLAOL) and coronenylaminooxyluciferin (COAOL) can be used as electron-injection/transporting materials. AOL, PHAOL, FLAOL and COAOL can be used as blue light-emitting materials. These results indicate that the firefly oxyluciferin analogs bearing an amino group have many interesting properties and are good candidates for optoelectronic ap-plication.

Cite this article

Min Chungang , Li Zuosheng , Cui Xiaoying , Yang Xikun , Huang Shaojun , Wang Shaohua , Ren Aimin . Theoretical Investigation on Firefly Oxyluciferin Analogs Bearing an Amino Group Used as Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Materials[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015 , 35(2) : 432 -438 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201409003

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