White Light from Blue Fluorescence and Sensitized Yellow Long-Afterglow Phosphorescence of o-Terphenyl in Its pi-Acid center dot center dot center dot Base Adduct with Ag(3)Pz(3)

Zhan SZ; Ding F; Liu XW; Zhang GH; Zheng J; Li D

Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.58, No.19, 12516-12520, 2019

DOI10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01911 Export Citation

White Light from Blue Fluorescence and Sensitized Yellow Long-Afterglow Phosphorescence of o-Terphenyl in Its pi-Acid center dot center dot center dot Base Adduct with Ag(3)Pz(3)

Zhan SZ, Ding F, Liu XW, Zhang GH, Zheng J, Li D

White-light emission with CIE (0.32, 0.34) was realized for an o-terphenyl (oTP) molecule in its Ag-3[3,5-(CF3)(2)Pz](3) (Pz = pyrazolate) sandwiching adduct, originating from the hybrid of fluorescence and sensitized long-afterglow phosphorescence of oTP. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT calculations revealed that heavy-atom effects of Ag play a crucial role in sensitization of the triplet of oTP, giving off its ultralong phosphorescence.