• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.50-53
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• 2009

New functionalized siloles have been synthesized and their optical characterizations are investigated. Silole unit has been interested, since silole has a unique optical and electronic properties. Here we report the synthesis of new type of photoluminescent silole. New siloles have been characterized by NMR, FTIR, and UV-vis absorption spectroscopy. Their optical characteristics have been also investigated using photoluminescence spectroscopy. Possible applications such as OLED and chemical sensors will be presented.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.65-68
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• 2009

Siloles of considerable current interest, both because of their unusual electronic properties and because of their possible application as electron-transporting materials in devices such as light-emitting diodes (LED's) and chemical sensor. Siloles have been characterized by NMR, FT-IR, and UV-vis absorption spectroscopy. Their optical characteristics have been also investigated using photoluminescence spectroscopy. Thus siloles exhibit a low reduction potential and a low-lying LUMO energy level, attributed to ${\sigma}^*-{\pi}^*$ conjugation arising from the interaction between the ${\sigma}^*$ orbital of the sigma-bonded silicon atom and the $\pi^*$ orbital of the butadiene moiety of the ring.