A structure–effect study is presented pertaining to the HOMO–LUMO tuning of compounds built upon the 9-fluorenylidene scaffold frequently incorporated as a moiety within organic-based semiconducting materials. The results represent the first reported analysis employing an ensemble of spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and crystal structure data to elucidate and compare the electronic properties of 9-fluorenones, 9-fluorenylidenes, and 9-fluorenimine derivatives. The results also provide the first spectroscopically and crystallographically measured description of exciton coupling within 9,9′-bifluorenylidenes. The 9-ylidene bond is seen to play a key role impacting the electronic properties, and an examination of the effects of substituents, conjugation, heteroatoms, and steric strain on the 9-ylidene bond in a diverse set of structures with representative structural variations relevant to the HOMO–LUMO tuning is presented. Increasing conjugation decreased the HOMO–LUMO gap (HLG), increased the HOMO energy (EHOMO), but decreased the LUMO energy (ELUMO). Substituent effects were observed to produce only slight changes that tended to decrease the HLG and increase both EHOMO and ELUMO, while heteroatom inclusion at the 9-ylidine bond tended to decrease the HLG, EHOMO, ELUMO, and the extinction coefficient. In the sterically hindered 9,9′-bifluorenylidenes, increased steric strain that promoted either an increase in the torsion angle or bond length of the 9-ylidene bond was seen to decrease the HLG via exciton coupling. These results elucidate the HOMO–LUMO tuning of systems containing a 9-fluorenylidene moiety and may assist in developing materials with specifically tuned HLGs and HOMO–LUMO levels for a variety of applications.
本文介绍了一项结构-效应研究,涉及到建立在9-芴亚甲基骨架上的化合物的HOMO-LUMO调节。该骨架经常被作为有机半导体材料中的一部分。结果是第一个使用光谱学,电化学和晶体结构数据来阐明和比较9-芴酮,9-芴亚甲基和9-芴亚胺衍生物的电子性质的分析。结果还提供了第一个获得9,9'-双芴亚甲基激子耦合的光谱和晶体学测量描述。 9-亚甲基键被看作是影响电子性质的关键因素,并且对于具有代表性的结构变化的多样化结构集合,对取代基,共轭,杂原子和立体位阻对9-亚甲基键的影响进行了研究。增加共轭减少了HOMO-LUMO间隙(HLG),增加了HOMO能量(EHOMO),但降低了LUMO能量(ELUMO)。观察到取代基效应只会产生轻微的变化,倾向于减少HLG并增加EHOMO和ELUMO,而在9-亚甲基酰胺键中包含杂原子倾向于降低HLG,EHOMO,ELUMO和消光系数。在立体位阻的9,9'-双芴亚甲基中,通过激子耦合,促进9-亚甲基键的扭转角度或键长的增加,可降低HLG。这些结果阐明了含有9-芴亚甲基基团的系统的HOMO-LUMO调节,并可能有助于开发具有特定调节HLG和HOMO-LUMO水平的材料,以用于各种应用。