Long, Yun and Mamada, Masashi and Li, Chunyong and dos Santos, Paloma Lays and Colella, Marco and Danos, Andrew and Adachi, Chihaya and Monkman, Andrew (2020) 'Excited state dynamics of thermally activated delayed fluorescence from an excited state intramolecular proton transfer system.', Journal of physical chemistry letters., 11 (9). pp. 3305-3312.
Abstract
We describe the photophysical processes that give rise to thermally activated delayed fluorescence in the excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) molecule, triquinolonobenzene (TQB). Using transient absorption and time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy, we fully characterize prompt and delayed emission, phosphorescence, and oxygen quenching to reveal the reverse intersystem crossing mechanism (rISC). After photoexcitation and rapid ESIPT to the TQB-TB tautomer, emission from S1 is found to compete with thermally activated ISC to an upper triplet state, T2, very close in energy to S1 and limiting photoluminescence quantum yield. T2 slowly decays to the lowest triplet state, T1, via internal conversion. In the presence of oxygen, T2 is quenched to the ground state of the double proton transferred TQB-TC tautomer. Our measurements demonstrate that rISC in TQB occurs from T2 to S1 driven by thermally activated reverse internal conversion from T1 to T2 and support recent calculations by Cao et al. (Cao, Y.; Eng, J.; Penfold, T. J. Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Dynamics for Triplet Harvesting in Organic Molecules.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (Advance online version) (2175Kb) |
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Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00498 |
Publisher statement: | This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited. |
Date accepted: | 03 April 2020 |
Date deposited: | 21 April 2020 |
Date of first online publication: | 15 April 2020 |
Date first made open access: | 21 April 2020 |
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