Luminescent solvent-free liquids based on Schiff-base boron difluoride complexes with polyethylene glycol chains.

Ikeshita, Masahiro; Ichinose, Miku; Tsuno, Takashi · Soft Matter · 2024

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A series of Schiff-base boron difluoride complexes with polyethylene glycol chains were synthesized and their photophysical properties were examined. These complexes maintained the solvent-free liquid state even at room temperature and their glass transition temperatures (<i>T</i><sub>g</sub>) were determined to be around -40 °C. The complexes showed blue to yellow luminescence under UV irradiation in the solvent-free liquid state with good emission quantum yields (<i>Φ</i>) of up to 0.26. The luminescence colour could also be tuned by dissolving organic dyes in the blue luminescent liquid sample. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent (TD) DFT calculations were performed to further understand the photophysical properties.