Abstract
Heteroleptic ruthenium-complexed ladder-like structured polysilsesquioxane (LPSQ-Ru) was synthesized by post coordination reaction of bidentate ligand side chains in LPSQ with reactive Ru(II) complexes, which was well characterized by 1H and 29Si NMR, FT-IR, and spectroscopic techniques. The photophysical properties of LPSQ-Ru were examined by UV and PL analyses in both solution and solid states, comparing to analogous polymers of ruthenium-complexed polystyrene (PS-Ru). Obtained absorptions of LPSQ-Ru and PS-Ru were broadened ranging from 390-490 nm regardless of the states. However, LPSQ-Ru exhibited higher and shaper PL emission spectrum in comparison to that of PS-Ru, particularly in the solid state, because Ru-complexes in LPSQ were much effectively isolated, preventing their aggregations due to the rigid double strained siloxane backbone. This extinguished photophysical property in LPSQ-Ru kept after intensive thermal treatment at 250 °C for 90 min, which was not achieved in PS-Ru (~5-fold decrease). These differences originated from the backbone structures were also appeared in electrochemical properties in the solid states.
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