Blue fluorescence from pyridinyl coumarincarboxymides structure having high quantum yield in solution

Abstract

Small molecules having fluorescence quantum yields are required to promote biological and organic material applications. In this work, we introduced a series of pyridinyl coumarincarboxymides derivatives, namely 4-XP. These compounds exhibited intense blue fluorescence with high fluorescence quantum yield. By spectral measurement and analysis, it is identified that these pyridine-coumarin conjugates displayed high fluorescence quantum yields (ΦF = 0.77–0.82) blue fluorescence at about 455 nm in nonpolar solvents. Additionally, the solvent effect and fluorescence properties were verified and explained by DFT and TD-DFT calculations.