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Record W4416303623 · doi:10.1016/j.mseb.2025.118997

Oxygen sensing properties of room temperature phosphorescent halogenated hexahydroxanthene derivatives

2025· article· en· W4416303623 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMaterials Science and Engineering B · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicLuminescence and Fluorescent Materials
Canadian institutionsQueen's UniversityUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsXantheneIntersystem crossingPhosphorescenceHalogenPhotoluminescenceOxygenDihedral angleExcited state

Abstract

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A series of halogenated hexahydroxanthene (XAN) derivatives, XAN-F, XAN-Cl, XAN-Br, XAN-I, and XAN-5F, were synthesized to investigate their room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) and optical oxygen-sensing performance. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed that heavier halogens (Br and I) induce nearly orthogonal dihedral angles between the xanthene and phenyl rings (84.87° for XAN-Br and 86.18° for XAN-I), enhancing molecular rigidity and spin–orbit coupling (SOC). This structural configuration promotes efficient intersystem crossing (ISC) and suppresses nonradiative decay, enabling pronounced RTP. In contrast, XAN-Ph without halogen substitution displayed fluorescence, while derivatives bearing lighter halogens (F, Cl, and 5F) exhibited only low-temperature phosphorescence. Thin films of XAN-Br and XAN-I containing 1 wt% Zeonex displayed strong RTP with lifetimes up to 4.48 ms. They also showed exceptional ISC quantum yields (93.02 % for XAN-Br and 93.51 % for XAN-I) and large vacuum-to-air photoluminescence intensity ratios (14.67 and 15.33, respectively). These features translated to excellent oxygen sensitivity, with Stern-Volmer quenching constants (K sv ) of 6.08 × 10 −5 and 1.11 × 10 −4 ppm −1 for XAN-Br and XAN-I, respectively. This high oxygen sensitivity arises from efficient triplet–triplet energy transfer from the XAN's triplet excited state to ground-state triplet oxygen, leading to nonradiative quenching. With their metal-free composition, efficient RTP, excellent oxygen responsiveness, and good solution-processability into thin films, XAN-Br and XAN-I represent promising candidates for use in optical oxygen sensors for biomedical diagnostics, food preservation, and environmental monitoring. • Six halogenated xanthene derivatives are designed for optical oxygen sensing. • XAN-Br and XAN-I films exhibit RTP and strong sensitivity to oxygen. • High Stern–Volmer constant (K sv ) up to 1.11 × 10 −4 ppm −1 is achieved. • Emission color shifts from blue/green to white to enable visual detection. • Simple, metal-free synthesis supports low-cost oxygen sensor development.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.774

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it