AVVISO DI CONFERENZA

Dr. Andrea Fermi

(School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK)

 Heteroatom-containing aromatic compounds: a journey through luminescent molecules

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a large class of compounds that still attract tremendous attention.^[1] Due to their functional properties (luminescence, redox behaviour, electrical conductivity, etc.) they currently find a wide range of applications, for example in organic electronics, photovoltaics, biomedical sensors and light-harvesting materials. The presence of heteroatoms in the molecular skeleton can deeply affect these features, making these compounds of large interest for photophysical and electrochemical investigations.^[2] Moreover, since the functionalities can be tuned very flexibly, these heteroatom-containing molecules can potentially provide improved performances in a number of applications, such as phosphorescent emitters,^[3a] luminescent sensors,^[3b] organic low band gap materials and photoinitiators.^[3c]

[1] J. E. Anthony, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 452-483.

[2] M. Stępień, E. Gońka, M. Żyła, N. Sprutta, Chem. Rev., 2017, 117, 3479–3716.

[3] a) G. Bergamini, A. Fermi, C. Botta, U. Giovanella, S. Di Motta, F. Negri, R. Peresutti, M. Gingras, P. Ceroni, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1, 2717-2724; b) A. Fermi, G. Bergamini, M. Roy, M. Gingras, P. Ceroni, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 6395–6400; c) T. Miletić, A. Fermi, I. Orfanos, A. Avramopoulos, F. De Leo, N. Demitri, G. Bergamini, P. Ceroni, M. G. Papadopoulos, S. Couris, D. Bonifazi, Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 2363-2378.