High performance optical oxygen sensors based on iridium complexes exhibiting interchromophore energy shuttling

Santiago Medina-rodríguez, Sergey A. Denisov, Yanouk Cudré, Louise Male, Marta Marín-suárez, Alberto Fernández-gutiérrez, Jorge F. Fernández-sánchez, Arnaud Tron, Gediminas Jonusauskas, Nathan D. Mcclenaghan, Etienne Baranoff

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Abstract

A doubly pyrene-grafted bis-cyclometallated iridium complex with engineered electronically excited states demonstrates reversible electronic energy transfer between adjacent chromophores giving rise to extremely long-lived red luminescence in solution (τ = 480 μs). Time-resolved spectroscopic studies afforded determination of pertinent photophysical parameters including rates of energy transfer and energy distribution between constituent chromophores in the equilibrated excited molecule (ca. 98% on the organic chromophores). Incorporation into a nanostructured metal–oxide matrix (AP200/19) gave highly sensitive O2 sensing films, as the detection sensitivity was 200–300% higher than with the commonly used PtTFPP and approaches the sensitivity of the best O2-sensing dyes reported to date.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3090-3097
JournalThe Analyst
Volume141
Issue number10
Early online date14 Apr 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 May 2016

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