Efficient blue organic electrochemiluminescence luminophore based on a pyrenyl-phenanthroimidazole conjugate

Kwang-Myeong Kim; Jiwoo Kim; Joohoon Kim; Jong-In Hong

doi:10.1039/d2cc01762h

Efficient blue organic electrochemiluminescence luminophore based on a pyrenyl-phenanthroimidazole conjugate

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Jul 5;58(54):7542-7545. doi: 10.1039/d2cc01762h.

Authors

Kwang-Myeong Kim¹, Jiwoo Kim², Joohoon Kim², Jong-In Hong¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, College of National Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea. jihong@snu.ac.kr.
² Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Basic Sciences, KHU-KIST Department of Converging Science and Technology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea. jkim94@khu.ac.kr.

PMID: 35703380
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc01762h

Abstract

A pyrenyl-phenanthroimidazole (Py-PI) conjugate emitted strong blue electrochemiluminescence (ECL) emission via the reductive-oxidation co-reactant pathway, with an ECL efficiency 3.3 times higher than that of the 9,10-diphenylanthracene (DPA) reference compound.