A photochromic diethylamino methanone Schiff base with its application in color-shift-based binary data recording and information encryption-decryption

The development of fluorescent stimuli-responsive organic materials has attracted substantial interest due to their increasing optoelectronic applications. This study systematically introduces fluorine atoms on one end of carbazole-based Nsalicylidene anilines 5a−5f to elucidate the impact in their solution and solid-state photophysics. The addition of fluorine atoms at one end of the molecule induced significant changes, for example, a reduction in the quantum yield (QY) fluorescence emission in solution, going from QY near unity in compound 5a (QY ∼ 100%) to a negligible emission in 5f (QY < 1%). Similarly, compound 5a showed a very strong aggregation-induced enhancement emission behavior, whereas compounds with a higher fluorine content were almost quenched. Furthermore, the crystalline solid-state photoisomerization in N-salicylidene anilines is not trivial, and only compounds with three (5e) and five fluorine atoms (5f) exhibited reversible solid-state photoisomerization under 405 nm light source irradiation. We propose that the presence of the arene-perfluoroarene interaction in the crystalline array facilitates the latter behavior. Our findings present a comprehensive study of crystal engineering for the obtention of photoswitchable crystalline materials and adjustable photophysics response, paving the way for its implementation in other systems.

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A photochromic diethylamino methanone Schiff base with its application in color-shift-based binary data recording and information encryption-decryption

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