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Luminescent acetylthiol derivative tripodal osmium(II) and iridium(III) complexes: Spectroscopy in solution and on surfaces

Ramachandra, Srinidhi ; Polo, Federico ; Edafe, Fabio ; Schuermann, Klaus C. ; Nijhuis, Christian A. ; Belser, Peter ; Reus, William F. ; Whitesides, George M. ; Cola, Luisa De

In: Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2011, vol. 4, no. 83, p. 779-799

Luminescent Os(II) and Ir(III) complexes containing a tripodal-type structure terminalized with three thiol derivatives are described. The tripod is introduced through derivatization, with a rigid spacer, of a phenanthroline ligand coordinated to the metal ion, and the entire structure possesses axial geometry. The geometry of the complexes combined with the three anchoring sites, the thiol...

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Luminescent mechanochromic sensors based on poly(vinylidene fluoride) and excimer-forming p-phenylene vinylene dyes

Lott, Joseph ; Weder, Christoph

In: Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2009, vol. 211, no. 1, p. 28-34

Cyano-substituted excimer-forming oligo(phenylene vinylene) dyes (cyano-OPVs) with terminal alkyl tails of different length were blended with two fluorinated host polymers with similar chemical composition but differing crystallinity. These blends were used to fabricate luminogenic mechanochromic thin films, which change their emission color upon deformation. The alkyl tails affect the solubility...

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Preparation and characterization of 3-(4,5-ethylenedithio-1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)naphthopyranone: a luminescent redox-active donor–acceptor compound

Dolder, Stefan ; Liu, Shi-Xia ; Guégano, Xavier ; Atanasov, Mihail ; Daul, Claude A. ; Leiggener, Claudia ; Hauser, Andreas ; Neels, Antonia ; Decurtins, Silvio

In: Tetrahedron, 2006, vol. 62, no. 48, p. 11106-11111

A new 1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene substituted naphthopyranone 2 has been synthesized and characterized. UV–vis spectroscopic and cyclic voltammetry results, interpreted on the basis of density functional theory, show that 2 displays an intramolecular charge-transfer transition and acts like a donor–acceptor (D–A) system. Furthermore, a weak fluorescence originating from the excited...