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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2026

TADF-Active Tetrazole Luminophores for Visible-Light Functionalization of Nanoparticles and Surfaces.

Ryoga Hojo, Katrina Bergmann, Siyuan L Xie, Connor S Durfy, William L Primrose, Athan T Gogoulis, Seja A Elgadi, Mitchell J Demchuk, Thomas Kalab, Peiqi Hu and 2 more

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ryoga HojoDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.
Katrina BergmannDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5859-0125
Siyuan L XieDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6131-8966
Connor S DurfyDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0213-6625
William L PrimroseDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.
Athan T GogoulisDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7955-0163
Seja A ElgadiDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-7762
Mitchell J DemchukDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7221-5153
Thomas KalabDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4400-7965
Peiqi HuDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.
Eva M NicholsDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3718-7273
Zachary M HudsonDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British, Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8033-4136

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Canada Research Chairs program
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Abstract

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials have found broad use in technologies spanning displays, bioimaging, and photocatalysis. In parallel, tetrazoles have become powerful "click" reagents for light-activated, bioorthogonal ligations, yet remain unexplored in reagents with delayed emission lifetimes. Here we report the design and synthesis of TADF-active tetrazole luminophores with photochemical reactivity for the rapid functionalization of nanoparticles and surfaces. The combination of electron-rich phenoxazine donors with electron-deficient tetrazole acceptors yields luminophores with bright emission and tunable TADF lifetimes, governed by the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition partner. Cycloaddition with alkene dipolarophiles affords saturated dihydropyrazoles that undergo photoinduced aerobic aromatization to generate pyrazole products exhibiting pronounced turn-on TADF behavior. Leveraging their charge-transfer character, we also demonstrate a gold surface modified with TADF luminophores, wherein we propose the first example of reversible visible light-induced surface adsorption. Furthermore, we demonstrate the surface functionalization of organic nanoparticles using TADF-active materials. This work introduces a class of functional materials that combine photochemical reactivity with TADF properties, introducing a light-driven platform for surface functionalization using TADF materials.

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Click ChemistryGlassy Organic DotsPhotochemistrySelf‐Assembled MonolayersThermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence

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PMID42666006
PMCPMC13676396

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