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Bent-core liquid crystalline cyanostilbenes : fluorescence switching and thermochromism

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07/05/2015
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Martínez-Abadía, M.
Varghese, Shinto
Milián-Medina, B.
Gierschner, J.
Giménez, R.
Ros, M.B.
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Abstract
Fluorescent bent-core molecules, bearing one or two cyanostilbene units in the lateral structure and different positions of the cyano group (α- or β-isomers), are described with the aim of modulating the molecular packing and fluorescence properties. These compounds give rise to a variety of crystal polymorphs and bent-core liquid crystalline phases (SmCP, Colr and B6), offering the unique chance to study the fluorescence properties of the cyanostilbene structure in different phases. Experimental and computational studies elucidate geometrical and electronic properties of these bent-core structures but especially the fluorescence properties (spectral positions, quantum yields and decay curves), in a detailed comparison between diluted solutions, in dichloromethane (DCM) or poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA), and condensed phases. Quantum yields as high as 70% have been obtained in some diluted solutions (PMMA) and condensed phases. Remarkably, the quantum yield values depend on the position of the cyano group, being higher for β- than for the α-isomers due to the higher radiative rates and lower non-radiative rates of the former. The photophysical characterization in the condensed phase focuses on RT studies with solid samples and different processing, and show that, upon aggregation, interactions between the cyanostilbene groups result in changes of the emission spectra and dynamics compared to the diluted systems in DCM and PMMA, giving rise to H-aggregations of varying strength. Furthermore, the compounds exhibit thermochromism, showing a green-yellow fluorescence in the pristine crystalline phase that changes to blue on heating to the liquid crystal phase. This journal is
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Martínez-Abadía , M , Varghese , S , Milián-Medina , B , Gierschner , J , Giménez , R & Ros , M B 2015 , ' Bent-core liquid crystalline cyanostilbenes : fluorescence switching and thermochromism ' , Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics , vol. 17 , no. 17 , pp. 11715-11724 . https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp00696a
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp00696a
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1463-9076
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Journal article
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Copyright 2015 the Authors. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5CP00696A
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The authors from ICMA greatly appreciate financial support from the Spanish Government (MINECO-FEDER project MAT2012-38538-C03-01), the Aragon's Government and FSE (project E04) and the Jae PreDoc-CSIC (M. M.-A.) fellowship program.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8465

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