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Self-assembly of emissive supramolecular rosettes with increasing complexity using multitopic terpyridine ligands

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  • Guang-Qiang Yin

    (East China Normal University
    University of South Florida)

  • Heng Wang

    (University of South Florida)

  • Xu-Qing Wang

    (East China Normal University)

  • Bo Song

    (University of South Florida)

  • Li-Jun Chen

    (East China Normal University)

  • Lei Wang

    (University of South Florida)

  • Xin-Qi Hao

    (Zhengzhou University)

  • Hai-Bo Yang

    (East China Normal University)

  • Xiaopeng Li

    (University of South Florida)

Abstract

Coordination-driven self-assembly has emerged as a powerful bottom-up approach to construct various supramolecular architectures with increasing complexity and functionality. Tetraphenylethylene (TPE) has been incorporated into metallo-supramolecules to build luminescent materials based on aggregation-induced emission. We herein report three generations of ligands with full conjugation of TPE with 2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine (TPY) to construct emissive materials. Due to the bulky size of TPY substituents, the intramolecular rotations of ligands are partially restricted even in dilute solution, thus leading to emission in both solution and aggregation states. Furthermore, TPE-TPY ligands are assembled with Cd(II) to introduce additional restriction of intramolecular rotation and immobilize fluorophores into rosette-like metallo-supramolecules ranging from generation 1–3 (G1−G3). More importantly, the fluorescent behavior of TPE-TPY ligands is preserved in these rosettes, which display tunable emissive properties with respect to different generations, particularly, pure white-light emission for G2.

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  • Guang-Qiang Yin & Heng Wang & Xu-Qing Wang & Bo Song & Li-Jun Chen & Lei Wang & Xin-Qi Hao & Hai-Bo Yang & Xiaopeng Li, 2018. "Self-assembly of emissive supramolecular rosettes with increasing complexity using multitopic terpyridine ligands," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 9(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:9:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-018-02959-w
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02959-w
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    1. Zhe Lian & Jing He & Lin Liu & Yanqing Fan & Xuebo Chen & Hua Jiang, 2023. "[2,2] Paracyclophanes-based double helicates for constructing artificial light-harvesting systems and white LED device," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-12, December.

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