a College of Chemistry Science, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China;b State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China;c School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
Abstract:
A new acid-base fluorescent switch containing both imidazo4,5-f]1,10]-phenanthroline and triphenylamine groups has been synthesized.Its fluorescence emissions and absorptions can be reversibiy changed through protonation/deprotonation of imidazole and amine moiety by controlling the intramolecular charge transfer(ICT) process,leading to off-on-off fluorescent molecular switching.