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Fluorescence Characteristics of Some Dehydroabietic Acid-Based Arylamines

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Absorption spectra and fluorescence data in nonpolar solvents are reported for seven novel dehydroabietic acid-based diarylamines, which have potential as components of hole transport layers for molecular electronic devices. This bulky group has been found to improve the possibilities for film formation of these compounds, and in this study we show that this does not significantly affect their fluorescence characteristics, which are similar to diphenylamine.

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Acknowledgements

We are indebted to Dr. J Seixas de Melo and Mr. J. Pina for the fluorescence lifetime measurements. We thank Profs. M. H. Garcia and M. A. Seabra (IST) for the use of the voltammetric equipment. We also thank POCI, FCT, FEDER (POCI/QUI/58291/2004), GRICES and DST (Acordo de Cooperação Científica e Tecnológica Portugal–India) for the financial support.

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  1. Departamento de Química, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-535, Coimbra, Portugal

    H. D. Burrows & M. Fernandes

  2. Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 700 032, India

    N. Chattopadhyay

  3. INETI-DTIQ, Estrada do Paço do Lumiar, 22, 1649-038, Lisbon, Portugal

    M. A. Esteves & B. Gigante

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Burrows, H.D., Chattopadhyay, N., Esteves, M.A. et al. Fluorescence Characteristics of Some Dehydroabietic Acid-Based Arylamines. J Fluoresc 17, 701–706 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-007-0221-1

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