A simple zinc(ii) complex that features multi-functional luminochromism induced by reversible ligand dissociation

Takamasa Tsukamoto; Risa Aoki; Ryota Sakamoto; Ryojun Toyoda; Masaki Shimada; Yohei Hattori; Mizuki Asaoka; Yasutaka Kitagawa; Eiji Nishibori; Masayoshi Nakano; Hiroshi Nishihara

doi:10.1039/c6cc10190a

A simple zinc(ii) complex that features multi-functional luminochromism induced by reversible ligand dissociation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Mar 28;53(26):3657-3660. doi: 10.1039/c6cc10190a.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. sakamoto@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp nisihara@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
² Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. sakamoto@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp nisihara@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp and JST-PRESTO, 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan.
³ Division of Chemical Engineering, Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan.
⁴ Division of Physics, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS), and Center for Integrated Research in Fundamental Science and Engineering (CiRfSE), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan.

PMID: 28144656
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc10190a

Abstract

The authors create a zinc(ii) complex featuring a simple chemical structure but multi-functional luminochromism. Reversible dissociation/association between the zinc center and the terpyridine ligand plays a key role in the multi-functional luminochromism.