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Using cuprophilicity as a multi-responsive chromophore switching color in response to temperature, mechanical force and solvent vapors

Xiao-Chen Shan, Fei-Long Jiang, Lian Chen, Ming-Yan Wu, Jie Pan, Xiu-Yan Wan and and Mao-Chun Hong

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1, 4339–4349 (DOI: 10.1039/C3TC30482E ). Amendment published 14th October 2013.

The third paragraph of the Introduction section should be changed as follows (the new sentence is underlined for clarity):

In the report, our intention is to expand metallophilic complexes from single response to multiple response. In order to overcome the difficulty of activating metal–metal interactions to multiple stimuli, we provide a strategy to design a structure with an outer organic ligand shell which is sensitive to environmental stimuli to amplify the perturbations to influence the metallophilicity. The successful synthesis of a Cu₄I₄ cluster was reported by Perruchas et al. with a bi-stimuli-responsive luminescence, we target this kind of sensitive clusters as preferred candidate.^8e Herein, we have successfully prepared a tri-stimuli-responsive luminescent material, [Cu₄I₄(4-dpda)₄] (1) (4-dpda = 4-(diphenylphosphino)-N,N-dimethylaniline) with reversible and independent thermochromism, mechanochromism and vapochromism simultaneously by influencing the cuprophilic interactions. Temperature-dependent X-ray crystallographic studies, temperature-dependent luminescence measurements and other assisted structural and spectrographic investigations have been performed to gain further insight into the mechanisms and the relationship between the structure and photophysical properties.

8e) S. Perruchas, X. F. Le Goff, S. Maron, I. Maurin, F. Guillen, A. Garcia, T. Gacoin and J. -P. Boilot, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 10967–10969.

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