Issue 84, 2016
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Chemical Communications

A carborane-triggered metastable charge transfer state leading to spontaneous recovery of mechanochromic luminescence†

Deshuang Tu,a   Pakkin Leong,a   Zhihong Li,a   Rongrong Hu,b   Chao Shi,a   Kenneth Yin Zhang,b   Hong Yan*a  and  Qiang Zhao*b  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
E-mail: hyan1965@nju.edu.cn

b Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays and Institute of Advanced Materials, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
E-mail: iamqzhao@njupt.edu.cn

Abstract

An efficient strategy was designed to realize spontaneous recovery of mechanochromic luminescence by carborane-functionalized anthracene derivatives. A metastable charge-transfer emission from anthracene to o-carborane is responsible for this process.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC07093K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Aug 2016
Accepted
28 Sep 2016
First published
28 Sep 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 12494-12497

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A carborane-triggered metastable charge transfer state leading to spontaneous recovery of mechanochromic luminescence

D. Tu, P. Leong, Z. Li, R. Hu, C. Shi, K. Y. Zhang, H. Yan and Q. Zhao, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 12494 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC07093K

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