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Synfacts 2010(1): 0042-0042  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1218422
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ˙ New York

And ”Then There Was White"

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager
S. Park, J. E. Kwon, S. H. Kim, J. Seo, K. Chung, S.-Y. Park, D.-J. Jang, B. M. Medina, J. Gierschner, S. Y. Park*
Seoul National University, Korea; University of Valencia and IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, Spain
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21 December 2009 (online)

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Significance

Efficient generation of white light from a single molecule has been very challenging. The only previous systems that have approximated a white light emission are aggregate chromo­phores with a very broad excimer emission and a low quantum yield. The molecules shown create highly efficient white light emission from excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) and frustrated energy transfer. Efficient organic light-emitting devices are needed for room lighting applications and generating white light from single molecules is desirable to maintain color balance.