Recently, a research team led by SHNU Associate Professor Lu Ye and SHNU Professor Yang Shiping from the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, along with Professor F. Ekkehardt Hahn's team from the University of Münster, Germany, achieved groundbreaking progress in the optical applications of mechanically interlocked molecules. The related findings were published in the international top-tier chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition under the title An Organometallic [2]Catenane with Pt(di-NHC)-Pt Units: A Topology-Driven Strategy for Enhanced Phosphorescence in Discrete Aggregates. By precisely controlling the topological structure, the study successfully enhanced phosphorescence in discrete aggregates based on mechanically interlocked molecules, offering a novel design approach for developing new luminescent materials and expanding the application landscape of mechanically interlocked molecules.
Lu Ye is the first author and corresponding co-author of the paper, while SHNU master's degree candidate Wu Xidong serves as the second author, and SHNU undergraduate student Min Ziyan is the third author. Professor Yang Shiping and Professor F. Ekkehardt Hahn from the University of Münster are the co-corresponding authors. Shanghai Normal University is the primary contributing institution for this research. This work was supported by funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry under the Ministry of Education, the Frontier Science Research Base of Biomimetic Catalysis in Shanghai, and the Shanghai Green Energy Chemical Engineering Technology Research Center,etc.
