Nature Communications (Jul 2019)
Non-aromatic annulene-based aggregation-induced emission system via aromaticity reversal process
- Zheng Zhao,
- Xiaoyan Zheng,
- Lili Du,
- Yu Xiong,
- Wei He,
- Xiuxiu Gao,
- Chunli Li,
- Yingjie Liu,
- Bin Xu,
- Jing Zhang,
- Fengyan Song,
- Ying Yu,
- Xueqian Zhao,
- Yuanjing Cai,
- Xuewen He,
- Ryan T. K. Kwok,
- Jacky W. Y. Lam,
- Xuhui Huang,
- David Lee Phillips,
- Hua Wang,
- Ben Zhong Tang
Affiliations
- Zheng Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Xiaoyan Zheng
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology
- Lili Du
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong
- Yu Xiong
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Science, Disease and Drug Development, Shenzhen Research Institute
- Wei He
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Xiuxiu Gao
- Engineering Research Center for Nanomaterials, Henan University
- Chunli Li
- Engineering Research Center for Nanomaterials, Henan University
- Yingjie Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials Jilin University
- Bin Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials Jilin University
- Jing Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Fengyan Song
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Ying Yu
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Xueqian Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Yuanjing Cai
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Xuewen He
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Ryan T. K. Kwok
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Jacky W. Y. Lam
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Xuhui Huang
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- David Lee Phillips
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong
- Hua Wang
- Engineering Research Center for Nanomaterials, Henan University
- Ben Zhong Tang
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10818-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Molecular systems displaying aggregation-induced emission (AIE) have important biomedical and optoelectronic applications. Here the authors report a further mechanism for AIE, through aromaticity reversal from the ground state to the excited state, in the non-aromatic annulene derivative of cyclooctatetrathiophene.
