Prof. Dr. Peter Gilch, Uni Düsseldorf
Reverse Intersystem Crossing in Aromatic Carbonyls: From a Photophysical Particularity to OLED Applications
Aromatic carbonyls have been the subject of photophysical and photochemical studies for decades.
Name reactions like Norrish type I or II or Paternò-Büchi give evidence for that. This and their use as
triplet energy donors prompted us to study their photo-processes by femtosecond spectroscopy. In the
course of these studies we have discovered that in certain aromatic carbonyls like thioxanthone reverse
intersystem crossing can be very efficient. As will be shown in this talk, this makes these compounds
potential emitters for organic light emitting diodes (OLED).
Organisation:
Institut für Physikalische Chemie
