Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains

Photochromic soft materials have received particular attention for inducing excellent properties in many fields such as displays, sensor, energy, catalysts, molecular electronics, and memory. In particular, organometallic compounds such as Group 11 azolate complexes with luminescent properties revea...

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Main Author:	Goh, Cheow Kat
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Q Science (General)
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spelling	my-utm-ep.1014852023-06-21T10:13:34Z Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains 2019 Goh, Cheow Kat Q Science (General) Photochromic soft materials have received particular attention for inducing excellent properties in many fields such as displays, sensor, energy, catalysts, molecular electronics, and memory. In particular, organometallic compounds such as Group 11 azolate complexes with luminescent properties reveal promising characteristics from supramolecular self-assembly of columnar nanostructures upon ultraviolet and visible light treatments. Although self-assembled nanostructures with azobenzene moieties have been used to study photochromic cis-trans isomerization towards light irradiation, there is no example for the utilization at the side-chains of the metal complexes. Herein, this study reports the first successful synthesis of phosphorescent trinuclear gold(I) pyrazolate complex bearing hydrophobic azobenzene side-chains. The gold complex (7) was synthesized via seven stepwise reactions and named as tris[(E)-3,5-dimethyl-4-(4-((4-propoxyphenyl)diazenyl) benzyl)-1H-pyrazolato-N,N’]trigold(I) (7, 28%). Compound 7 showed cis-trans isomerization upon UV and visible light irradiation at 365 nm and 535 nm, respectively. Interestingly, metal-metal interaction was not affected by the cis-trans photoisomerization. Compound 7 showed emission of a combination of 423, 472 and 537 nm with excitation wavelength of 271 nm, large stoke shift of 266 nm suggested the emission to be phosphorescence. Compound 7 was able to show white phosphorescence in dried solid state, which was resulted from the region of blue, green and red emission. Compound 7 was non-emissive in CHCl3, but able to regain emission upon addition of water which decreased the solubility of compound 7 in CHCl3. Successful formation of metal-metal interaction directly related to the phosphorescence of compound 7, which can be utilized as aggregation-induced emissive (AIE) material with photochromic properties. 2019 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/101485/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/101485/1/GohCheowKatMFS2019.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:146162 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Science Faculty of Science
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spellingShingle	Q Science (General) Goh, Cheow Kat Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains
description	Photochromic soft materials have received particular attention for inducing excellent properties in many fields such as displays, sensor, energy, catalysts, molecular electronics, and memory. In particular, organometallic compounds such as Group 11 azolate complexes with luminescent properties reveal promising characteristics from supramolecular self-assembly of columnar nanostructures upon ultraviolet and visible light treatments. Although self-assembled nanostructures with azobenzene moieties have been used to study photochromic cis-trans isomerization towards light irradiation, there is no example for the utilization at the side-chains of the metal complexes. Herein, this study reports the first successful synthesis of phosphorescent trinuclear gold(I) pyrazolate complex bearing hydrophobic azobenzene side-chains. The gold complex (7) was synthesized via seven stepwise reactions and named as tris[(E)-3,5-dimethyl-4-(4-((4-propoxyphenyl)diazenyl) benzyl)-1H-pyrazolato-N,N’]trigold(I) (7, 28%). Compound 7 showed cis-trans isomerization upon UV and visible light irradiation at 365 nm and 535 nm, respectively. Interestingly, metal-metal interaction was not affected by the cis-trans photoisomerization. Compound 7 showed emission of a combination of 423, 472 and 537 nm with excitation wavelength of 271 nm, large stoke shift of 266 nm suggested the emission to be phosphorescence. Compound 7 was able to show white phosphorescence in dried solid state, which was resulted from the region of blue, green and red emission. Compound 7 was non-emissive in CHCl3, but able to regain emission upon addition of water which decreased the solubility of compound 7 in CHCl3. Successful formation of metal-metal interaction directly related to the phosphorescence of compound 7, which can be utilized as aggregation-induced emissive (AIE) material with photochromic properties.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Goh, Cheow Kat
author_facet	Goh, Cheow Kat
author_sort	Goh, Cheow Kat
title	Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains
title_short	Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains
title_full	Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains
title_fullStr	Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains
title_full_unstemmed	Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains
title_sort	phosphorescent trinuclear gold (i) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Science
granting_department	Faculty of Science
publishDate	2019
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/101485/1/GohCheowKatMFS2019.pdf
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Phosphorescent trinuclear gold (I) pyrazolate complex bearing photochromic azobenzene side-chains

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