A Tetranuclear Cuprous Halide Cluster
Exhibiting Efficient Blue Thermally
Activated Delayed Fluorescence
WANG Pei, HUANG Chun-Hua, CHEN Xu-Lin and LU Can-Zhong*
Chin.
J. Struct. Chem. 2021, 40, 1489-1495 DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-3197
December 15, 2021
cuprous complex, thermally activated delayed fluorescence, blue
emission, photoluminescence
ABSTRACT
A new tetranuclear cuprous halide complex, (CuBr)4(PN)2 (PN =
2-(diphenylphosphaneyl)- 6-methoxypyridine), was synthesized and fully characterized.
In solid state, this complex exhibits efficient blue emission with a photoluminescence quantum yield of 43.3% and a decay time of 19 μs at room temperature. The
theoretical calculations, combined with the temperature dependence of
spectroscopic properties and emission decay behaviors, indicate that the
emission in the solid state originates from the 1, 3(MLCT + XLCT) excited states, which are in thermal
equilibrium with a small energy gap of about 0.1 eV.