Abstract
Organic donor-acceptor co-crystals with long exciton lifetimes have emerged as a promising class of semiconductors for their unique photophysical properties. These are crystalline, single-phase materials composed of two or more different compounds in a stoichiometric ratio, providing a platform for unveiling the structure–property relationships at a molecular level. Importantly, co-crystals that are packed through π stacking interactions have the ability to form charge transfer (CT) excitons within donor-acceptor pairs.1,2,3 We hypothesize that co-crystals with a high degree of CT will have longer exciton lifetimes. Therefore, we design and synthesized of new co-crystals using derivatives of N,N-bis(3-pentyl)-perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) (PDI, acceptor) with a series of donor molecules, including peri-xanthenoxanthene (PXX), perylene, and triphenylene. High quality single crystals were isolated by slow evaporation at room temperature from suitable solvent mixtures. Their crystal structures were successfully refined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and the phase purity was validated by powder diffraction. Crystal structures revealed that the driving force for forming these co-crystals is π...π stacking. We measured diffuse reflectance UV/visible spectra of each of these co-crystals and compared with computed spectra to assign the observed electronic transitions. DFT calculations provide additional insights into the nature of the excited state CT interactions which can be derived from ground state electronic structure calculations. Transient absorption measurements were conducted to understand their long exciton lifetime for each of as synthesized co-crystals. We conclude that this study supported our previous hypothesis and such materials are potentially useful in applications ranging from photovoltaics and opto-electronics to photocatalysis. References 1) A. Abou Taka, J. E. Reynolds Iii, N. C. Cole-Filipiak, M. Shivanna, C. J. Yu, P. L. Feng, et al. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2023, 25, 27065.2) L. Sun, Y. Wang, F. Yang, X. Zhang and W. Hu. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1902328.3) I. Schlesinger, N. E. Powers-Riggs, J. L. Logsdon, Y. Qi, S. A. Miller, R. Tempelaar, et al. Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 9532–9541.
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