Approaching White-Light Emission from a Phosphorescent Trinuclear Gold(I) Cluster by Modulating Its Aggregation Behavior

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 52; no. 50; pp. 13472 - 13476
• Main Authors: Ni, Wen-Xiu, Li, Mian, Zheng, Ji, Zhan, Shun-Ze, Qiu, Yu-Min, Ng, Seik Weng, Li, Dan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 09.12.2013; WILEY‐VCH Verlag; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Agglomeration; aurophilicity; Chromophores; Clusters; Emission; excited states; gold cluster; phosphorescence; Stacking; White light; white light emission; gold cluster; aurophilicity; phosphorescence; excited states; white light emission

White light: [{Au(L)}3] (L=3‐(2‐thienyl)pyrazolate) gives dual emission, one from an organic chromophore the other from aurophilic stacking interactions. The resulting blue–green and orange–red emissions can be tuned to approach white‐light by modulating the aggregation behavior of the cluster....