%AShi, Yafei [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AZeng, Yi [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AKucheryavy, Pavel [Department of Chemistry Rutgers University-Newark 73 Warren Street Newark NJ 07102 USA]%AYin, Xiaodong [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AZhang, Kai [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AMeng, Guoyun [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AChen, Jinfa [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AZhu, Qian [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AWang, Nan [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AZheng, Xiaoyan [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%AJäkle, Frieder [Department of Chemistry Rutgers University-Newark 73 Warren Street Newark NJ 07102 USA]%AChen, Pangkuan [Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of the Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology of China Beijing 102488 China]%BJournal Name: Angewandte Chemie International Edition; Journal Volume: 61; Journal Issue: 51; Related Information: CHORUS Timestamp: 2023-08-20 13:47:17 %D2022%IWiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons) %JJournal Name: Angewandte Chemie International Edition; Journal Volume: 61; Journal Issue: 51; Related Information: CHORUS Timestamp: 2023-08-20 13:47:17 %K %MOSTI ID: 10385119 %PMedium: X %TDynamic B/N Lewis Pairs: Insights into the Structural Variations and Photochromism via Light‐Induced Fluorescence to Phosphorescence Switching %XAbstract

Ultralong afterglow emissions due to room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP) are of paramount importance in the advancement of smart sensors, bioimaging and light‐emitting devices. We herein present an efficient approach to achieve rarely accessible phosphorescence of heavy atom‐free organoboranes via photochemical switching of sterically tunable fluorescent Lewis pairs (LPs). LPs are widely applied in and well‐known for their outstanding performance in catalysis and supramolecular soft materials but have not thus far been exploited to develop photo‐responsive RTP materials. The intramolecular LPM1BNMnot only shows a dynamic response to thermal treatment due to reversible N→B coordination but crystals ofM1BNMalso undergo rapid photochromic switching. As a result, unusual emission switching from short‐lived fluorescence to long‐lived phosphorescence (radM1BNM,τRTP=232 ms) is observed. The reported discoveries in the field of Lewis pairs chemistry offer important insights into their structural dynamics, while also pointing to new opportunities for photoactive materials with implications for fast responsive detectors.

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