Rotaxane PtII-complexes: mechanical bonding for chemically robust luminophores and stimuli responsive behaviour
Rotaxane PtII-complexes: mechanical bonding for chemically robust luminophores and stimuli responsive behaviour
We report an approach to rotaxanes in which the metal ion of a cyclometallated PtII luminophore is embedded in the space created by the mechanical bond. Our results show that the interlocked ligand environment stabilises a normally labile PtII–triazole bond against displacement by competing ligands and that the crowded environment of the mechanical bond retards oxidation of the PtII centre, without perturbing the photophysical properties of the complex. When an additional pyridyl binding site is included in the axle, the luminescence of the PtII centre is quenched, an effect that can be selectively reversed by the binding of AgI. Our results suggest that readily available interlocked metal-based phosphors can be designed to be stimuli responsive and have advantages as stabilised triplet harvesting dopants for device applications.
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Zhang, Zhihui
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Tizzard, Graham J.
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Williams, J. A. Gareth
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Goldup, Stephen M.
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21 February 2020
Zhang, Zhihui
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Tizzard, Graham J.
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Williams, J. A. Gareth
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Goldup, Stephen M.
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Zhang, Zhihui, Tizzard, Graham J., Williams, J. A. Gareth and Goldup, Stephen M.
(2020)
Rotaxane PtII-complexes: mechanical bonding for chemically robust luminophores and stimuli responsive behaviour.
Chemical Science, 11 (7), .
(doi:10.1039/C9SC05507J).
Abstract
We report an approach to rotaxanes in which the metal ion of a cyclometallated PtII luminophore is embedded in the space created by the mechanical bond. Our results show that the interlocked ligand environment stabilises a normally labile PtII–triazole bond against displacement by competing ligands and that the crowded environment of the mechanical bond retards oxidation of the PtII centre, without perturbing the photophysical properties of the complex. When an additional pyridyl binding site is included in the axle, the luminescence of the PtII centre is quenched, an effect that can be selectively reversed by the binding of AgI. Our results suggest that readily available interlocked metal-based phosphors can be designed to be stimuli responsive and have advantages as stabilised triplet harvesting dopants for device applications.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 January 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 2 January 2020
Published date: 21 February 2020
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This work was supported nancially by the China Scholarship Council (studentship to ZZ) and the European Research Council (Consolidator Grant to SMG, agreement no. 724987). The authors thank Dr J. E. M. Lewis (Imperial College) for assistance with SCXRD and helpful discussions.
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/437967
ISSN: 2041-6520
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