Highly Luminescent TCNQ in Melamine.

ABSTRACT: Optical properties of molecules change drastically as a result of interactions with surrounding environments as observed in solutions, clusters, and aggregates. Here, we make 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) highly luminescent by encapsulating it in crystalline melamine. Colored single crystals are synthesized by slow evaporation of aqueous tetrahydrofuran solutions of melamine and TCNQ. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals the lattice structure of pure melamine, meaning that the color is of impurities. Both mass spectrometry and UV-vis spectroscopy combined with density-functional theory calculations elucidate that the impurity species are neutral TCNQ and its oxidation product, dicyano-p-toluoyl cyanide anion (DCTC^-), whose concentrations in a melamine crysta

SUBMITTER: Mishra V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11217937 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature