Yellow-red emitting, methoxy substituted triphenylamine-based styryl derivatives: Synthesis, photophysical properties, viscosity sensitivity, aggregation induced emission, NLO properties, and DFT study

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.112027

Three novel triphenylamine based fluorescent molecular rotors (FMRs) are designed and synthesized to study the effect of auxiliary methoxy substituent on aggregation induced emission (AIE) and viscosity sensitivity. Instead of elongated, short conjugated