Hexaphenyltriphenylene‐Based Multicomponent Metallacages: Host–Guest Complexation for White‐Light Emission
Haifei Liu, Chenxing Guo, Zeyuan Zhang, Chaoqun Mu, Feng Qian, Mingming Zhang
Abstract
A hexaphenyltriphenylene-based hexatopic pyridyl ligand is designed and used to prepare three hexagonal prismatic metallacages via metal-coordination-driven self-assembly. Owing to the planar conjugated structures of the hexaphenyltriphenylene skeleton, such metallacages show good host-guest complexation with a series of emissive dyes, which have been further used to tune their emission in solution. Interestingly, based on their complementary emission colors, white light emission is achieved in a mixture of the host metallacages and the guests.
Topics & Concepts
Host (biology)White lightWhite (mutation)ChemistryMaterials scienceOptoelectronicsBiologyEcologyBiochemistryGeneLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsMolecular Sensors and Ion DetectionSupramolecular Chemistry and Complexes