Abstract:
Circularly Polarized emitting Organic Luminophores: The emission of circularly polarized light from organic luminophores is a subject of current research. Contributing to this, three planar-chiral chromophores based on [2.2]paracyclophane and BN-substituted polyaromatics were synthesized and extensively examined for their optical properties, accompanied by quantum mechanical computations. The derivative 16, composed of four NBN-benzo[f,g]tetracenes tethered to a bis(ps-meta)para [2.2]paracyclophane framework via ethynyl linkers, stood out due to its excellent luminescence with Фlum = 70% and high photostability. The fluorescent transition exhibits a strong charge transfer character and displays intense circularly polarized luminescence with a dissymmetry factor of glum = ±8 × 10^-4. A method was found at the M06−2x/def2-SV(P) level of theory that yielded a computed glum,calcd. factor very close to the experimental value. Encouraged by this, a subsequent study was conducted utilizing a computer-assisted approach in search for further compounds with promising CPL characteristics. The glum,calcd.-factors obtained by theoretical computations of two 1,1'-binaphthalene derivatives were at high values of 1.4 − 1.5 × 10^-3. The compounds showed, upon successful synthesis, very good agreement between the computed dissymmetry factors with the experimental data. This study highlights the value of in silico screening for the identification of potent CPL emitters prior to effortful and costly synthesis. [2.2]Paracyclophane linked Oligotetracenes for Singlet Fission: In this project, a family of oligotetracenes was synthesized in which the tetracenes are covalently linked to three types of paracyclophanes (class A, B, and C), creating a total of nine novel materials. The objective was to fine-tune inter-tetracene couplings in an attempt to enable intramolecular singlet fission (SF). Tetracene-1-yl and tetracene-2-yl derivatives A1−2, B1−2, and C1−2 were obtained via Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions, while A3 and C3 were prepared utilizing a one-pot protocol. A similar one-pot synthesis failed for B3, but a modular approach was successful. In addition to steady-state spectroscopy, time-resolved measurements were conducted to provide insights into the nature and sequence of excited states. In B1−2 and C1−2, where the tetracenes are electronically weakly coupled, the decay of the initially formed singlet excited state (S1S0) occurs via 3(T1S0), rather than via SF and thus a correlated triplet−triplet pair 1(T1T1). However, the formation of 1(T1T1) dominated the photo physics in A1−2. Therefore, interactions through-bond were concluded to be required for the SF-enabling step, as confirmed by the analysis of a reference compound rA2.