Abstract
Two coumarin derivatives, 7-diethylamino-3-(4-nitrophenyl)coumarin (DNC) and 7-hydroxy-3-(4-nitrophenyl)coumarin (HNC), were synthesized via Knoevenagel condensation of salicylaldehyde derivatives with 4-nitrophenylacetonitrile and then cyclization reaction. Both of them were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The molecules of DNC are stacked via π-π interaction, while the hydrogen bond interactions instead of π-π interaction were observed in the crystal packing of HNC. Both of DNC and HNC showed solvatochromic properties and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) activities, but the AIE characteristics of them were entirely different. HNC exhibited an AIE phenomenon as the result of the restriction of twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT), while DNC emitted peculiar dual fluorescence which was assigned to the emission based on the inhibition of TICT state formation and the emission from the TICT state respectively.
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