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Coordination‐Driven Self‐Assembly of Carbazole‐Based Metallodendrimers with Generation‐Dependent Aggregation‐Induced Emission Behavior
Author(s) -
Fan WenJia,
Sun Bin,
Ma Jianqiu,
Li Xiaopeng,
Tan Hongwei,
Xu Lin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201501282
Subject(s) - carbazole , supramolecular chemistry , materials science , dichloromethane , self assembly , dendrimer , supramolecular assembly , spectroscopy , crystallography , photochemistry , chemistry , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , crystal structure , physics , quantum mechanics , solvent
A new family of 120° carbazole‐based dendritic donors D1 – D3 have been successfully designed and synthesized, from which a series of novel supramolecular carbazole‐based metallodendrimers with well‐defined shapes and sizes were successfully prepared by [2+2] and [3+3] coordination‐driven self‐assembly. The structures of newly designed rhomboidal and hexagonal metallodendrimers were characterized by multinuclear NMR ( 1 H and 31 P) spectroscopy, ESI‐TOF mass spectrometry, FTIR spectroscopy, and the PM6 semiempirical molecular orbital method. The fluorescence emission behavior of ligands D1 – D3 , rhomboidal metallodendrimers R1 – R3 , and hexagonal metallodendrimers H1 – H3 in mixtures of dichloromethane and n ‐hexane with different n ‐hexane fractions were investigated. The results indicated that D1 – D3 featured typical aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) properties. However, different from ligands D1 – D3 , metallodendrimers R1 – R3 and H1 – H3 presented interesting generation‐dependent AIE properties. Furthermore, evidence for the aggregation of these metallodendrimers was confirmed by a detailed investigation of dynamic light‐scattering, Tyndall effect, and SEM. This research not only provides a highly efficient strategy for constructing carbazole‐based dendrimers with well‐defined shapes and sizes, but also presents a new family of carbazole‐based dendritic ligands and rhomboidal and hexagonal metallodendrimers with interesting AIE properties.