title: Anion-controlled photochromism of two bipyridinium-based coordination polymers and nondestructive luminescence readout.
abstract: The past ten years have evidenced the rapid development of bipyridinium-based coordination polymers, however, the design and synthesis of photo-switchable luminescent materials with a non-destructive readout capability based on bipyridinium ligands are still at the primary stage. In this work, two new coordination polymers with a bipyridinium-functionalized m-benzenedicarboxyl ligand were synthesized for this purpose. By using anions with different geometries, the molecular linkage and packing structure have been adjusted, and thus allow the two title compounds to exhibit eye-detectable color development with different photoresponsive rates, and distinct luminescence behaviors. Furthermore, compound 2 is the first reported Zn-based luminescent coordination polymer with a non-destructive readout capability. These results can not only help to further understand the structure-photosensitivity relationships of bipyridinium-based systems but also guide the design and synthesis of more luminescent materials with a non-destructive readout capability.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China. zhangjie68@bit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xiao-Dong
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China. zhangjie68@bit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Ya-Jun
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. R. China. zhangjie68@bit.edu.cn and State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6195-8525
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang