Ian D. Williams

TL;DR: In this paper, a highly porous metal coordination polymer [Cu3(TMA)2(H2O)3]n (where TMA is benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate) was formed in 80 percent yield.

TL;DR: A series of 10 2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsiloles with different 1,1-substituents [XYSi(CPh)4] were prepared, and three of them were characterized crystallographically as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) derivatives 1 and 2 consisting of donor and acceptor units with dual photoresponses to solvent polarity and luminogen aggregation are developed through taking advantage of twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) processes as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The twisted propeller-like conformations and effective intermolecular interactions not only endow the luminogens with AIE characteristics and high efficiency in the crystalline state, but also render them to undergo conformational planarization and disruption in intermolescular interactions upon mechanical stimuli, resulting in remarkable changes in emission wavelength and efficiency.

TL;DR: (4-Biphenylyl)phenyldibenzofulvene is weakly luminescent in the amorphous phase but becomes highly emissive upon crystallization; this unusual crystallization-induced emission enhancement effect allows its emission to be repeatedly switched between dark and bright states by fuming-heating and heating-cooling processes.