Abstract
AbstractAlthough long‐lived triplet charge‐transfer (3CT) state with high energy level has gained significant attention, the development of organic small molecules capable of achieving such states remains a major challenge. Herein, by using the through‐space electronic coupling effect, we have developed a compound, namely NIC‐DMAC, which has a long‐lived 3CT state at the single‐molecule level with a lifetime of 210 ms and a high energy level of up to 2.50 eV. Through a combination of experimental and computational approaches, we have elucidated the photophysical processes of NIC‐DMAC, which involve sequential transitions from the first singlet excited state (S1) that shows a 1CT character to the first triplet excited state (T1) that exhibits a local excited state feature (3LE), and then to the second triplet excited state (T2) that shows a 3CT character (i.e., S1 (1CT)→T1 (3LE)→T2 (3CT)). The long lifetime and high energy level of its 3CT state have enabled NIC‐DMAC as an initiator for photocuring in double patterning applications.
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