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A Study of Boratriazaroles: An Underdeveloped Class of Heterocycles
Liew, Sean K.,Holownia, Aleksandra,Tilley, Andrew J.,Carrera, Elisa I.,Seferos, Dwight S.,Yudin, Andrei K.
, p. 10444 - 10453 (2016)
Boratriazaroles were discovered in the late 1960s, and since then, a variety of substituted boratriazarole derivatives have been prepared. However, no study has compared the properties of these BN heterocycles with their carbon-based analogues. In this work, we have prepared a series of boratriazarole derivatives and have investigated how structural variations in the five-member heterocycle affect photophysical and electronic properties. Boratriazaroles exhibit absorption and emission spectra comparable to those of their azacycle analogues but have a markedly lower quantum yield. The quantum yield can be increased with the incorporation of a 2-pyridyl substitution on the boratriazaroles, and the structural and optoelectronic properties are further influenced by the nature of the B-aryl substituent. Introducing an electron-deficient p-cyano group on the B-phenyl substituent creates a twisted intramolecular charge transfer state that causes a large Stokes shift and positive solvatochromism. Our work should serve to guide future synthetic efforts toward the application of boratriazaroles in materials science.
