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Tetraphenylpyrazine-Based Luminogens with Aggregation-Enhanced Emission Characteristics: Preparation and Property

  • Pan Lingxiang ,
  • Luo Wenwen ,
  • Chen Ming ,
  • Liu Junkai ,
  • Xu Lu ,
  • Hu Rongrong ,
  • Zhao Zujin ,
  • Qin Anjun ,
  • Tang BenZhong
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  • aState Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640;
    b Hong Kong Branch of National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction, Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Received date: 2016-02-22

  Revised date: 2016-04-03

  Online published: 2016-04-07

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21525417), the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2013CB834702), and the National Program for Support of Top-Notch Young Professionals and the Guangdong Innovative Research Team Program (No. 201101C0105067115).

Abstract

The research on aggregation-induced emission (AIE) has been a hot topic in the fields of photo-physics and luminescent materials. Design and synthesis of new AIE-active luminogens (AIEgens) will further promote the development of this area. Based on our developed new AIEgen of tetraphenylpyrazine (TPP), in this paper, we further enriched its family by covalently attaching thiophene unit on TPP core, and prepared three AIEgens of TPP-T, TPP-2T and T-TPP-T. Their structure-property relationship was studied in detail. The results showed that TPP-T, TPP-2T and T-TPP-T feature the aggregation-enhanced emission (AEE) characteristics. Their powders emit at 418, 437 and 436 nm with absolute fluorescence quantum yields of 26.8, 29.0 and 30.9%, respectively, which makes them promising to be used as emitting layer in fabrication of organic light-emitting diodes in combination with their excellent thermal stability.

Cite this article

Pan Lingxiang , Luo Wenwen , Chen Ming , Liu Junkai , Xu Lu , Hu Rongrong , Zhao Zujin , Qin Anjun , Tang BenZhong . Tetraphenylpyrazine-Based Luminogens with Aggregation-Enhanced Emission Characteristics: Preparation and Property[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2016 , 36(6) : 1316 -1324 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201602020

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