Pyrazine luminogens with "free" and "locked" phenyl rings: Understanding of restriction of intramolecular rotation as a cause for aggregation-induced emission

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 25, 2009, Pages

  Qin, Anjun ^a,b   Lam, Jacky W Y ^b   Mahtab, Faisal ^b   Jim, Cathy K W ^b   Tang, Li ^a   Sun, Jingzhi ^a   Sung, Herman H Y ^b   Williams, Ian D ^b   Tang, Ben Zhong ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION-INDUCED EMISSIONS; HIGH YIELD; PHENYL RINGS; PYRAZINE; QUENCHING EFFECT;

CHROMOPHORES; ROTATION;

QUENCHING;

EID: 67649472553     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3137166     Document Type: Article

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