Cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes with acyl-pyrazolone ligands – towards tunable versatile building blocks and AIE emitters with external chelating fragmentsстатья
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Аннотация:Development of stimuli-responsive emissive materials is of great importance, and design of transition metal complexes with varying number of external chelating fragments may contribute to this field. In this work, three bis-cyclometalated iridium complexes with 2-acyl-pyrazolone ligands in both metalated and ancillary modes were synthesized and studied by various spectroscopic techniques, single-crystal X-ray diffraction and cyclic voltammetry. It was shown that the complex with cyclometalated acyl-pyrazolone (and thus, two external diketonate sites) is non-luminescent in solution, but demonstrates aggregation-induced emission. In turn, complexes with ancillary acyl-pyrazolone (and one external diketonate site, respectively) possess bright emission in the visible region, which is tunable by replacement of the cyclometalated counterpart and reversibly quenched by protonation/deprotonation. The experimental study was corroborated by quantum chemical calculations, which showed that spin density localization at the triplet excited state plays crucial role in emissive properties of the target complexes.