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Fluorescence emission enhancement of a T-shaped benzimidazole with a mechanically-interlocked ‘suit’
Xu, Houyang,Lin, Meng-Di,Yuan, Jun,Zhou, Baiyang,Mu, Yingxiao,Huo, Yanping,Zhu, Kelong
, p. 3239 - 3242 (2021)
A fluorescent T-shaped benzimidazole was successfully designed and interlocked in a bicyclic macrocycle to form a suit[1]ane through supramolecular templated-synthesis. Compared with the bare fluorophore, suit[1]ane requires nearly two times the concentration to initialize the aggregation-caused quenching effect in solution. Furthermore, an 8-fold higher solid-state fluorescence quantum yield (21.7%) is also achieved. By taking advantage of mechanical bonding and molecular packing, such fluorescence emission enhancement through formation of a suitane opens the way to new complex fluorescent materials.
