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Expansion of Photostable Luminescent Radicals by Meta‐ Substitution
Author(s) -
Hattori Yohei,
Tsubaki Shunsuke,
Matsuoka Ryota,
Kusamoto Tetsuro,
Nishihara Hiroshi,
Uchida Kingo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry – an asian journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.18
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1861-471X
pISSN - 1861-4728
DOI - 10.1002/asia.202100612
Subject(s) - photochemistry , bathochromic shift , radical , chemistry , excited state , fluorescence , substituent , cyclohexane , chloroform , medicinal chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , nuclear physics
Polychlorinated pyridyldiphenylmethyl radicals having substituents meta to the position bearing the carbon‐centered radical (α‐carbon) are synthesized. All of them are stable in ambient conditions in solutions and fluorescent in cyclohexane. The fluorescence of the radicals with bromo, phenyl, 4‐chlorophenyl, or 2‐pyridyl substituents are enhanced in chloroform, while the emission of the radicals with 2‐thienyl or 2‐furyl substituents are quenched in chloroform. DFT and TD‐DFT calculations indicate that the first doublet excited states of the former are locally excited, while the first doublet excited states of the latter are charge transfer states from the π‐electron‐donating substituent to the accepting radical. The latter also show much higher photostability under 370‐nm light irradiation compared with the first reported photostable fluorescent radical, (3,5‐dichloro‐4‐pyridyl)bis(2,4,6‐trichlorophenyl)methyl radical (PyBTM), with pronounced bathochromic shifts of the fluorescence.