Organic-inorganic hybrid metal halide perovskites, an emerging class of solution processable photoactive materials, welcome a new member with a one-dimensional structure. Herein we report the synthesis, crystal structure and photophysical properties of one-dimensional organic lead bromide perovskites, C4N2H14PbBr4, in which the edge sharing octahedral lead bromide chains [PbBr4 2−]∞ are surrounded by the organic cations C4N2H14 2+ to form the bulk assembly of core-shell quantum wires. This unique one-dimensional structure enables strong quantum confinement with the formation of self-trapped excited states that give efficient bluish white-light emissions with photoluminescence quantum efficiencies of approximately 20% for the bulk single crystals and 12% for the microscale crystals. This work verifies once again that one-dimensional systems are favourable for exciton self-trapping to produce highly efficient below-gap broadband luminescence, and opens up a new route towards superior light emitters based on bulk quantum materials.
The paper focuses
on exploiting aurophilic bonding to produce white
light emitting materials. Inorganic Click (iClick) is employed to
link two or four Au(I) metal ions through a triazolate bridge. Depending
on the choice of phosphine ligand (PEt3 or PPh3), dinuclear Au2-FO or tetranuclear Au4-FO
complexes can be controllably synthesized (FO = 2-(9,9-dioctylfluoreneyl-)).
The iClick products Au2-FO and Au4-FO are characterized
by combustion analysis and multinuclear NMR, TOCSY 1D, 1H–13C gHMBC, and 1H–13C gHSQC. In addition, the photophysical properties of Au2-FO and Au4-FO were examined in THF solution. Transient
absorption spectroscopy was employed to elucidate the excited state
features of the gold compounds. Solution processed OLEDs were fabricated
and characterized, which gave white light electroluminescence with
CIE coordinates (0.34, 0.36), as seen referenced to CIE standard illuminant
D65 (0.31, 0.32). TDDFT computational analysis of Au2-FO
and Au4-FO reveals the origin of light emission. In the
case of Au4-FO, direct excitation leads to increased aurophilic
bonding in the excited state, and as a result the emission profile
is broadened to cover a larger region of the visible spectrum, thus
giving white light emission. Designing molecules that can access or
increase aurophilic bonding in the excited state provides another
tool for fine-tuning the emission profiles of gold complexes.
The syntheses and photophysical characterization of five new gold(I) complexes bearing diphenylamine-substituted fluorenyl moieties are reported; four are characterized by X-ray diffraction crystallography. Ancillary ligation on gold(I) is provided by organophosphine and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. Two complexes, Au-DPA0 and Au-DPA1, are σ-aryls, two, Au-ADPA0 and Au-ADPA1, are σ-alkynyls, and one, Au-TDPA1, is a σ-triazolyl bound through carbon. All complexes show vibronically structured absorption and luminescence bands that are assignable to π−π* transitions localized on the diphenylamine-substituted fluorenyl π system. The excited-state dynamics of all five chromophores are governed by selection of the ancillary ligand and σ attachment of the diphenylamine-substituted fluorenyl moiety. All of these chromophores are dual luminescent in a toluene solution at 298 K. The luminescence from the aryl derivatives, Au-ADPA0 and Au-DPA1, appears green. The alkynyl derivative containing a phosphine ancillary ligand, Au-ADPA0, is a white-light emitter, while the alkynyl derivative containing an N-heterocyclic carbene ancillary ligand, Au-ADPA1, is a yellow-light emitter. The luminescence from the triazolyl-linked chromophore, Au-TDPA1, appears as yellow-green. Spin-restricted density functional theory calculations support the assignments of ligand-centric optical transitions but with contributions of ligand-to-metal charge transfer involving the vacant Au 6p orbital.
The first example of an in-chain metallo-poly(triazolate) synthesized by CuAAC is reported. Azido-platinum-acetylide (A-M-B) monomers are catalytically polymerized with copper(i) acetate to yield 1,2,3-triazolate linked Pt(ii) units. The metallopolymers are characterized by multinuclear NMR, IR, UV/Vis, GPC, and MS.
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