Triplet migration and reverse-saturable absorption in cyclometalated iridium complexes with pyrene isocyanide ligands

Morris E. Olumba; Ryan M. O'Donnell; Thomas N. Rohrabaugh Jr.; Thomas S. Teets

doi:10.1117/12.2648467

14 March 2023 Triplet migration and reverse-saturable absorption in cyclometalated iridium complexes with pyrene isocyanide ligands

Morris E. Olumba, Ryan M. O'Donnell, Thomas N. Rohrabaugh Jr., Thomas S. Teets

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Proceedings Volume 12418, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XXV; 1241805 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648467
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Our group has developed cyclometalated iridium complexes as nonlinear optical materials, focusing especially on reversesaturable absorption (RSA). Cationic cyclometalated iridium complexes with isocyanide ancillary ligands offer several advantages in this context, elaborated in previous studies. This talk describes next-generation complexes of the general formula [Ir(C^N)₂(CNAr)₂]⁺, where C^N is a variable cyclometalating ligand and CNAr is a pyrene-decorated aryl isocyanide. In these compounds the dominant ground-state absorption transitions, especially in the visible range, are controlled by the C^N ligand. However, the lowest-energy triplet excited state (T₁) is typically located on the pyrene moiety, which has two consequences on the spectroscopic properties. First, these compounds exhibit temperaturedependent luminescence profiles. At room temperature, photoluminescence is mostly quenched by triplet energy transfer to the pyrene, and only residual pyrene fluorescence is observed. At low temperature (77 K), phosphorescence from the pyrene is turned on, and bright red luminescence is observed. The pyrene isocyanides also have profound impacts on the transient absorption spectroscopy of these compounds. Following visible excitation, a strongly absorbing, long-lived excited state is rapidly populated, which gives rise to ESA over the entire visible range and is assigned to the pyrene triplet state. The pyrene isocyanide complexes have higher excited-state absorption cross section (i.e. larger ΔOD) relative to first-generation complexes, and the excited-state lifetime increases by as much as an order of magnitude.

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Morris E. Olumba, Ryan M. O'Donnell, Thomas N. Rohrabaugh Jr., and Thomas S. Teets "Triplet migration and reverse-saturable absorption in cyclometalated iridium complexes with pyrene isocyanide ligands", Proc. SPIE 12418, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XXV, 1241805 (14 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648467

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