Gold(i)-containing Light-emitting Molecules with an Inverted Singlet-triplet Gap

Overview

Journal Chem Sci

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2023 Apr 10

PMID 37035700

Authors

Daniel Blasco

Rinat T Nasibullin

Rashid R Valiev

Dage Sundholm

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Abstract

Delayed fluorescence from molecules with an inverted singlet-triplet gap (DFIST) is the consequence of the unusual reverse order of the lowest excited singlet (S) and triplet (T) states of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters. Heptazine (1,3,4,6,7,9,9-heptaazaphenalene) derivatives have an inverted singlet-triplet gap thanks to the combination of multiple resonance (MR) effects and a significant double excitation character. Here, we study computationally the effect of gold(i) metalation and coordination on the optical properties of heptazine (molecule 4) and the phosphine-functionalized 2,5,8-tris(dimethylphosphino)heptazine derivatives (molecules 1-3). calculations at the approximate second-order coupled cluster (CC2) and extended multiconfigurational quasi degenerate perturbation theory at the second order (XMC-QDPT2) levels show that molecules 1-4 have an inverted singlet-triplet gap due to the alternating spatial localization of the electron and hole of the exciton in the heptazine core. A non-vanishing one-electron spin-orbit coupling operator matrix element between T and and a fast S ← T intersystem crossing rate constant ( ) calculated at the XMC-QDPT2(12,12) level of theory for molecule 4 suggest that this new family of complexes may be the first organometallic DFIST emitters reported.

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