Exciplex quenching of a luminescent cyclometallated platinum complex by extremely poor Lewis bases

M Dolores Perez; Peter I Djurovich; Azad Hassan; Grace Y Cheng; Tim J Stewart; Kristen Aznavour; Robert Bau; Mark E Thompson

doi:10.1039/b901510h

Exciplex quenching of a luminescent cyclometallated platinum complex by extremely poor Lewis bases

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Jul 28:(28):4215-7. doi: 10.1039/b901510h. Epub 2009 Jun 8.

Authors

M Dolores Perez¹, Peter I Djurovich, Azad Hassan, Grace Y Cheng, Tim J Stewart, Kristen Aznavour, Robert Bau, Mark E Thompson

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

PMID: 19585025
DOI: 10.1039/b901510h

Abstract

An intensely phosphorescent Pt complex in cyclohexane is efficiently quenched by exciplex formation with extremely weak Lewis bases such as toluene and other aromatic compounds.