Iridium(III) Complexes Bearing Pyrene‐Functionalized 1,10‐Phenanthroline Ligands as Highly Efficient Sensitizers for Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion |
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| Authors: | Yue Lu Junsi Wang Dr. Niamh McGoldrick Xiaoneng Cui Prof. Dr. Jianzhang Zhao Colin Caverly Dr. Brendan Twamley Dr. Gearoid M. Ó Máille Bryan Irwin Robert Conway‐Kenny Prof. Dr. Sylvia M. Draper |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland;2. State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China |
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| Abstract: | “Chemistry‐on‐the‐complex” synthetic methods have allowed the selective addition of 1‐ethynylpyrene appendages to the 3‐, 5‐, 3,8‐ and 5,6‐positions of IrIII‐coordinated 1,10‐phenanthroline via Sonogashira cross‐coupling. The resulting suite of complexes has given rise to the first rationalization of their absorption and emission properties as a function of the number and position of the pyrene moieties. Strong absorption in the visible region (e.g. 3,8‐substituted Ir‐3 : λabs=481 nm, ?=52 400 m ?1 cm?1) and long‐lived triplet excited states (e.g. 5‐substituted Ir‐2 : τT=367.7 μs) were observed for the complexes in deaerated CH2Cl2. On testing the series as triplet sensitizers for triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion, those IrIII complexes bearing pyrenyl appendages at the 3‐ and 3,8‐positions ( Ir‐1 , Ir‐3 ) were found to give optimal upconversion quantum yields (30.2 % and 31.6 % respectively). |
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| Keywords: | iridium(III) phenanthroline pyrene triplet– triplet annihilation upconversion |
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