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Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers

Copper complexes have shown great versatility and a wide application range across the natural and life sciences, with a particular promise as organic light-emitting diodes. In this work, four novel heteroleptic Cu(I) complexes were designed in order to allow their integration in advanced materials s...

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Autores principales: Ferrari, Federico, Braun, Jonas, Anson, Christopher E., Wilts, Bodo D., Moatsou, Dafni, Bizzarri, Claudia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33924921
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26092567
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author Ferrari, Federico
Braun, Jonas
Anson, Christopher E.
Wilts, Bodo D.
Moatsou, Dafni
Bizzarri, Claudia
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description Copper complexes have shown great versatility and a wide application range across the natural and life sciences, with a particular promise as organic light-emitting diodes. In this work, four novel heteroleptic Cu(I) complexes were designed in order to allow their integration in advanced materials such as metallopolymers. We herein present the synthesis and the electrochemical and photophysical characterisation of these Cu(I) complexes, in combination with ab initio calculations. The complexes present a bright cyan emission (λ(em) ~ 505 nm) in their solid state, both as powder and as blends in a polymer matrix. The successful synthesis of metallopolymers embedding two of the novel complexes is shown. These copolymers were also found to be luminescent and their photophysical properties were compared to those of their polymer blends. The chemical nature of the polymer backbone contributes significantly to the photoluminescence quantum yield, paving a route for the strategic design of novel luminescent Cu(I)-based polymeric materials.
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spelling pubmed-81253122021-05-17 Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers Ferrari, Federico Braun, Jonas Anson, Christopher E. Wilts, Bodo D. Moatsou, Dafni Bizzarri, Claudia Molecules Article Copper complexes have shown great versatility and a wide application range across the natural and life sciences, with a particular promise as organic light-emitting diodes. In this work, four novel heteroleptic Cu(I) complexes were designed in order to allow their integration in advanced materials such as metallopolymers. We herein present the synthesis and the electrochemical and photophysical characterisation of these Cu(I) complexes, in combination with ab initio calculations. The complexes present a bright cyan emission (λ(em) ~ 505 nm) in their solid state, both as powder and as blends in a polymer matrix. The successful synthesis of metallopolymers embedding two of the novel complexes is shown. These copolymers were also found to be luminescent and their photophysical properties were compared to those of their polymer blends. The chemical nature of the polymer backbone contributes significantly to the photoluminescence quantum yield, paving a route for the strategic design of novel luminescent Cu(I)-based polymeric materials. MDPI 2021-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8125312/ /pubmed/33924921 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26092567 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Moatsou, Dafni
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Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers
title Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers
title_full Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers
title_fullStr Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers
title_full_unstemmed Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers
title_short Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers
title_sort cyan-emitting cu(i) complexes and their luminescent metallopolymers
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33924921
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26092567
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