Loading Dyes into Chiral Cd/Zn‐Metal–Organic Frameworks for Efficient Full‐Color Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Hua‐Qing Yin, Chen Jia, Yu-Wei Xue, Jing Ren, Xinhui Wang, Heng‐Rui Fan, Shu-Yan Wei, Bo Sun, Zhiming Zhang
Abstract
Abstract Host‐guest chemistry of chiral metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) has endowed them with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), it is still limited for MOFs to systematically tune full‐color CPL emissions and sizes. This work directionally assembles the chiral ligands, metal sites and organic dyes to prepare a series of crystalline enantiomeric D/L‐Cd/Zn‐n MOFs (n=1~5, representing the adding amount of dyes), where D/L‐Cd/Zn with the formula of Cd 2 (D/L–Cam) 2 (TPyPE) and Zn 2 (D/L–Cam) 2 (TPyPE) (D/L‐Cam=D/L‐camphoric acid, TPyPE=4,4’,4’’,4’’’‐(1,2‐henediidenetetra‐4,1‐phenylene)tetrakis[pyridine]) were used as the chiral platforms. The framework‐dye‐enabled emission and through‐space chirality transfer facilitate D/L‐Cd/Zn‐n bright full‐color CPL activity. The ideal yellow CPL of D‐Cd‐5 and D‐Zn‐4 , with |g lum | as 4.9 × 10 −3 and 1.3×10 −3 and relatively high photoluminescence quantum yield of 40.79 % and 45.40 %, are further assembled into a white CPL light‐emitting diode. The crystal sizes of D/L‐Cd/Zn‐n were found to be strongly correlated to the types and additional amounts of organic dyes, that the positive organic dyes allow for the preparation of > 7 mm bulks and negative dyes account for sub‐20 μm particles. This work opens a new avenue to fabricate full‐color emissive CPL composites and provides a potentially universal method for controlling the size of optical platforms.