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A brighter future for siloles. Luminescent silole chromophores with the highest quantum efficiencies reported for a fully substituted monomeric silole are generated by altering the steric properties of the substituent groups. Treatment of 1,1-dimethylsiloles with Bu4NF (TBAF) in THF rapidly gives stereospecific desilylation at room temperature (see scheme). Intense solid-state photoluminescence is observed in thin films of the silole fluorophores.
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