Emission properties of diazines chromophores: Structure-properties relationship.

This article presents the photophysical properties of a series of diazine chromophores. The influence of five parameters has been studied: the presence of a diazine/benzodiazine fragment, the nature of the diazine fragment (1,3-diazine/1,4-diazine), the presence or not of an vinyl linker between diazine ring and phenylene fragments of the π-conjugated bridge, the presence of a phenylene/biphenylene linker and the nature of electron donating group (dimethylamino/diphenylamino). Taguchi's design of experiment combined with analysis of variance methodologies have been employed to highlight the main structural parameters influencing the position of absorption and emission maxima of dichloromethane solution and the extend of emission solvatochromic range exhibited by this family of chromophores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]