title: Nonconventional Luminescence Enhanced by Silicone-Induced Aggregation.
abstract: Nonconventional organic luminogens have attracted a great deal of interests owing to their intriguing properties (e.g., unusual fluorescence emission) and promising applications. According to previous studies, it was found that introduction of Si-O could enhance the fluorescence emission of the luminogens. Herein, we have synthesized some fluorescent siloxane derivatives and similar molecules without Si-O units by simple and efficient modification to investigate the role of Si-O units in the emission. It was found that the strong emission could be observed in dilute solutions of siloxane derivatives, but not in the carbon compounds. UV/Vis absorption, fluorescence spectra, nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, and theoretical calculations indicated that the heteroatom and the Si-O unit formed the coordination bond in the siloxane derivatives, resulting in enhanced fluorescence emission.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Special Functional Aggregated Materials & Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Lab of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Ziqi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Special Functional Aggregated Materials & Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Shengyu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Feng
keywords: aggregation; nonconventional luminogens; photophysics; silicon