A Suite of Tetraphenylethylene-Based Discrete Organoplatinum(II) Metallacycles: Controllable Structure and Stoichiometry, Aggregation-Induced Emission, and Nitroaromatics Sensing

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• 作者：Xuzhou Yan ; Haoze Wang ; Cory E. Hauke ; Timothy R. Cook ; Ming Wang ; Manik Lal Saha ; Zhixuan Zhou ; Mingming Zhang ; Xiaopeng Li ; Feihe Huang ; Peter J. Stang
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 9, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：137
• 期：48
• 页码：15276-15286
• 全文大小：1025K
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

Materials that organize multiple functionally active sites, especially those with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties, are of growing interest due to their widespread applications. Despite promising early architectures, the fabrication and preparation of multiple AIEgens, such as multiple tetraphenylethylene (multi-TPE) units, in a single entity remain a big challenge due to the tedious covalent synthetic procedures often accompanying such preparations. Coordination-driven self-assembly is an alternative synthetic methodology with the potential to deliver multi-TPE architectures with light-emitting characteristics. Herein, we report the preparation of a new family of discrete multi-TPE metallacycles in which two pendant phenyl rings of the TPE units remain unused as a structural element, representing novel AIE-active metal鈥搊rganic materials based on supramolecular coordination complex platforms. These metallacycles possess relatively high molar absorption coefficients but weak fluorescent emission under dilute conditions because of the ability of the untethered phenyl rings to undergo torsional motion as a non-radiative decay pathway. Upon molecular aggregation, the multi-TPE metallacycles show AIE-activity with markedly enhanced quantum yields. Moreover, on account of their AIE characteristics in the condensed state and ability to interact with electron-deficient substrates, the photophysics of these metallacycles is sensitive to the presence of nitroaromatics, motivating their use as sensors. This work represents a unification of themes including molecular self-assembly, AIE, and fluorescence sensing and establishes structure鈥損roperty鈥揳pplication relationships of multi-TPE scaffolds. The fundamental knowledge obtained from the current research facilitates progress in the field of metal鈥搊rganic materials, metal-coordination-induced emission, and fluorescent sensing.