A Luminescent Nitrogen-Containing Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Synthesized by Photocyclodehydrogenation with Unprecedented Regioselectivity

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 49, 2015, Pages 17973-17980

  Gu, Xinggui ^a,b   Wang, Hong ^a,b   Roose, Jesse ^a,b   He, Zikai ^a,b   Zhou, Yue ^c   Yan, Yongli ^c   Cai, Yuanjing ^a,b   Shi, Heping ^b   Zhang, Yilin ^b   Sung, Herman H Y ^b   Lam, Jacky W Y ^a,b   Miao, Qian ^d   Zhao, Yongsheng ^c   Wong, Kam Sing ^b   Williams, Ian D ^b   Tang, Ben Zhong ^a,b,e  

^a HKUST SHENZHEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

aggregation; luminescence; optical waveguides; polycycles; regioselectivity

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; AROMATIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HYDROCARBONS; LUMINESCENCE; NITROGEN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; QUENCHING; REGIOSELECTIVITY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; LUMINESCENT PROPERTY; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; POLYCYCLES; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY ANALYSIS; STACKING INTERACTION; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES; WAVEGUIDE PROPERTIES;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 84948699241     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503147     Document Type: Article

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