Host-Guest Engineering of Coordination Polymers for Highly Tunable Luminophores Based on Charge Transfer Emissions.

Aiming at the targeted construction of coordination polymer luminophores, the engineering of host–guest architectures with charge transfer based emissions is performed by utilizing the interactions between the electron-deficient 2,4,6-tri(pyridin-4-yl)-1,3,5-triazine (tpt) and electron-rich polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) motifs as acceptors and donors, respectively. Through guest modulation of a prototype coordination polymer [Cd(tpt)(1,4-pda)(H2O)2]·(tpt)·(H2O)2 (1) (1,4-H2pda = 1,4-phenylenediacetic acid), a series of coordination polymers with different PAHs as guests, [Cd2(tpt)2(1,4-pda)2]·guest (2–5) (guest = triphenylene for 2, pyrene for 3, coronene for 4, and perylene for 5), are successfully fabricated. Distinct from 1, coordination polymers 2–5 reveal unique bilayer structures with PAHs interlayer and good stability, owing to the enhanced stacking interactions between tpt motifs and PAH guests. Moreover, their emissions cover a wide range of wavelength due to the effective guest to host...