Blue-emitting butterfly-shaped 1,3,5,9-tetraarylpyrenes: synthesis, crystal structures, and photophysical properties

Xing Feng; Jian-Yong Hu; Fumitaka Iwanaga; Nobuyuki Seto; Carl Redshaw; Mark R J Elsegood; Takehiko Yamato

doi:10.1021/ol4002653

Blue-emitting butterfly-shaped 1,3,5,9-tetraarylpyrenes: synthesis, crystal structures, and photophysical properties

Org Lett. 2013 Mar 15;15(6):1318-21. doi: 10.1021/ol4002653. Epub 2013 Mar 5.

Authors

Xing Feng¹, Jian-Yong Hu, Fumitaka Iwanaga, Nobuyuki Seto, Carl Redshaw, Mark R J Elsegood, Takehiko Yamato

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Honjo-machi 1, Saga-shi, Saga 840-8502, Japan.

PMID: 23461603
DOI: 10.1021/ol4002653

Abstract

The first example of aryl-functionalized, butterfly-shaped, highly fluorescent and stable blue-emitting monomers, namely, 7-tert-butyl-1,3,5,9-tetrakis(p-R-phenyl)pyrenes, were synthesized by the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction from a novel bromide precursor of 1,3,5,9-tetrabromo-7-tert-butylpyrene. The crystal structures and optical and electronic properties have been investigated.