Efficient electrochemiluminescence of a readily accessible boron difluoride formazanate dye

Mahdi Hesari; Stephanie M Barbon; Viktor N Staroverov; Zhifeng Ding; Joe B Gilroy

doi:10.1039/c4cc10038g

Efficient electrochemiluminescence of a readily accessible boron difluoride formazanate dye

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Mar 4;51(18):3766-9. doi: 10.1039/c4cc10038g.

Authors

Mahdi Hesari¹, Stephanie M Barbon, Viktor N Staroverov, Zhifeng Ding, Joe B Gilroy

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Advanced Materials and Biomaterials Research (CAMBR), The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaN6A 5B7. zfding@uwo.ca joe.gilroy@uwo.ca.

PMID: 25646662
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc10038g

Abstract

Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) of a boron difluoride formazanate dye was investigated in the presence of tri-n-propylamine as a reductive co-reactant. The ECL mechanism was studied using ECL-voltage curves, spooling ECL, and accumulative ECL spectroscopy. The ECL occurs at 724 nm by three distinct, voltage-dependent mechanisms of light emission.