Issue 12, 2018

The design of rigid cyclic tripyrrins: the importance of intermolecular interactions on aggregation and luminescence

Abstract

We designed a cyclic tripyrrin “locked” by a bridging benzene-1,4-diol-moiety which is perpendicular to the tripyrrin plane. The cyclic structures promote the scaffold rigidity and enhance the fluorescence. While the halogen-substitution of the bridging moiety was found to slightly affect the fluorescence of 1–3 in solution, such substitution significantly affects the aggregation behaviour and solid emission. 1 and 2 exhibit typical J-aggregate emission but 3 does not. The analysis of crystal packing combined with the reduced density gradient (RDG) analysis suggests that the bridging moieties of 1–3 play an important role in inducing the different crystal packing by tuning intermolecular interactions in the solid state. The energy decomposition analysis using symmetry adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) revealed that such weak intermolecular interactions mainly consist of halogen bonds and π–π interactions.

Graphical abstract: The design of rigid cyclic tripyrrins: the importance of intermolecular interactions on aggregation and luminescence

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
27 3 2018
Accepted
10 4 2018
First published
11 4 2018

Org. Chem. Front., 2018,5, 1877-1885

The design of rigid cyclic tripyrrins: the importance of intermolecular interactions on aggregation and luminescence

J. Wang, Y. Yao, Y. Ning, Y. Meng, C. Hou, J. Zhang and J. Zhang, Org. Chem. Front., 2018, 5, 1877 DOI: 10.1039/C8QO00313K

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