TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wu, Zhu
A1  - Roldao, Juan Carlos
A1  - Rauch, Florian
A1  - Friedrich, Alexandra
A1  - Ferger, Matthias
A1  - Würthner, Frank
A1  - Gierschner, Johannes
A1  - Marder, Todd B.
T1  - Pure Boric Acid Does Not Show Room-Temperature Phosphorescence (RTP)
T2  - Angewandte Chemie
N2  - Boric acid (BA) has been used as a transparent glass matrix for optical materials for over 100 years. However, recently, apparent room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) from BA (crystalline and powder states) was reported (Zheng et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 9500) when irradiated at 280 nm under ambient conditions. We suspected that RTP from their BA sample was induced by an unidentified impurity. Our experimental results show that pure BA synthesized from B(OMe)\(_{3}\) does not luminesce in the solid state when irradiated at 250–400 nm, while commercial BA indeed (faintly) luminesces. Our theoretical calculations show that neither individual BA molecules nor aggregates would absorb light at >175 nm, and we observe no absorption of solid pure BA experimentally at >200 nm. Therefore, it is not possible for pure BA to be excited at >250 nm even in the solid state. Thus, pure BA does not display RTP, whereas trace impurities can induce RTP.
KW  - boric acid
KW  - room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP)
KW  - optical materials
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31830
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-318308
VL  - 61
IS  - 15
ER  -