Mesitylated trityl radicals, a platform for doublet emission: symmetry breaking, charge-transfer states and conjugated polymers

Abstract Neutral π-radicals have potential for use as light emitters in optoelectronic devices due to the absence of energetically low-lying non-emissive states. Here, we report a defect-free synthetic methodology via mesityl substitution at the para-positions of tris(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)methyl ra...

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Main Authors: Petri Murto, Rituparno Chowdhury, Sebastian Gorgon, Erjuan Guo, Weixuan Zeng, Biwen Li, Yuqi Sun, Haydn Francis, Richard H. Friend, Hugo Bronstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39834-2