Area of research
Materials Chemistry · Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Research interest
Research topics from publications: Effect of Alkyl Substituents on Molecular Packing and Luminescence Properties of Crystalline Thioxanthone Derivatives. Representative work: Thioxanthone (TX) and its derivatives as important triplet sensitizers and photoinitiators have attracted a great deal of interest in photochemical studies; however, their luminescence properties receive less attention, which limits the understanding of the correlation between their structures and properties. Here, a series of alkyl chains (methyl (Me), ethyl (Et), propyl (n-Pr), and isopropyl (i-Pr)) are introduced on the 2-position and 4-position of TX to mainly investigate the correlation between the packing structure and the luminescence property of the resulting crystals. The alkyl substituents are found to have a negligible effect on the photophysical properties of TX-2-alkyl and TX-4-