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Synthesis and Tunable Optical Properties of C,N‐Chelated Borate Luminophores Derived from Potassium Acyltrifluoroborates
Author(s) -
Taguchi Jumpei,
Matsuura Satsuki,
Seki Tomohiro,
Ito Hajime
Publication year - 2020
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.201904983
Subject(s) - boron , fluorescence , potassium , chelation , photochemistry , materials science , chemistry , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , optics
Abstract A new class of borate luminophores has been synthesized by a simple two‐step reaction using potassium acyltrifluoroborates (KATs) as starting materials. The hydrazones obtained from reactions between KATs and 2‐hydrazinopyridines followed by a cyclization resulted in the unprecedented formation of C,N‐chelated six‐membered bora‐heterocycles. Under consideration of the results of DFT and TD‐DFT calculations, four luminophores based on such bora‐heterocycles are designed and synthesized, which exhibit a tunable fluorescence range from blue to red in the solid state. Moreover, one of the luminophores exhibits mechanofluorochromism from blue to yellow/green. As a result of the aforementioned mechanochromism of one of these luminophores, white‐color emission was achieved by simply mixing the four luminophores.