Tetracene cyclophanes showing controlled intramolecular singlet fission by through-space orientations

Hayato Sakai; Keigo Nonaka; Ryo Hayasaka; Shakkeeb Thazhathethil; Yoshimitsu Sagara; Taku Hasobe

doi:10.1039/d4cc00278d

Tetracene cyclophanes showing controlled intramolecular singlet fission by through-space orientations

Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 Apr 9;60(30):4084-4087. doi: 10.1039/d4cc00278d.

Authors

Hayato Sakai¹, Keigo Nonaka², Ryo Hayasaka¹, Shakkeeb Thazhathethil², Yoshimitsu Sagara^{2

3}, Taku Hasobe¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan. hasobe@chem.keio.ac.jp.
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Tokyo 152-8522, Japan. sagara.y.aa@m.titech.ac.jp.
³ Living Systems Materialogy (LiSM) Research Group, International Research Frontiers Initiative (IRFI), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuda-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan.

PMID: 38506713
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc00278d

Abstract

Tetracene cyclophanes: a series of cyclic tetracene dimers bridged by two flexible ethylene glycol units demonstrated enhanced intramolecular singlet fission through through-space orientations by suppressing the H-type excited complex.