Coaxing Solid State Phosphorescence from Tellurophenes

G.He,1 W.Torres Delgado,1 D.J.Schatz,1 C.Merten,1 A.Mohammadpour,2 L.Mayr,2 M.J. Ferguson,1 R. McDonald,1 A. Brown,1 K. Shankar2 and E. Rivard1

1. Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta 11227 Saskatchewan Dr., Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2 Canada
2. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2V4 (Canada)


Abstract

The synthesis of the first examples of tellurophenes exhibiting phosphorescence in the solid state and under ambient conditions (room temperature and in air) is reported. Each of these main-group-element-based emitters feature pinacolboronates (BPin) as ring-appended side groups. The nature of the luminescence observed was also investigated using computational methods.


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