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A Zero‐Dimensional Organic Seesaw‐Shaped Tin Bromide with Highly Efficient Strongly Stokes‐Shifted Deep‐Red Emission
Author(s) -
Zhou Chenkun,
Lin Haoran,
Shi Hongliang,
Tian Yu,
Pak Chongin,
Shatruk Michael,
Zhou Yan,
Djurovich Peter,
Du MaoHua,
Ma Biwu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201710383
Subject(s) - seesaw molecular geometry , photoexcitation , stokes shift , tin , excited state , density functional theory , materials science , chemical physics , bromide , halide , characterization (materials science) , chemistry , computational chemistry , luminescence , nanotechnology , inorganic chemistry , optoelectronics , atomic physics , physics , neutrino , nuclear physics , metallurgy
Abstract The synthesis and characterization is reported of (C 9 NH 20 ) 2 SnBr 4 , a novel organic metal halide hybrid with a zero‐dimensional (0D) structure, in which individual seesaw‐shaped tin (II) bromide anions (SnBr 4 2− ) are co‐crystallized with 1‐butyl‐1‐methylpyrrolidinium cations (C 9 NH 20 + ). Upon photoexcitation, the bulk crystals exhibit a highly efficient broadband deep‐red emission peaked at 695 nm, with a large Stokes shift of 332 nm and a high quantum efficiency of around 46 %. The unique photophysical properties of this hybrid material are attributed to two major factors: 1) the 0D structure allowing the bulk crystals to exhibit the intrinsic properties of individual SnBr 4 2− species, and 2) the seesaw structure enabling a pronounced excited state structural deformation as confirmed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations.