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Theoretical calculation results show the methyl group raised the energy level of HOMO more than that of LUMO, while the chlorine substituent lowered the energy level of LUMO more than that of HOMO. Both these Cu(I) complexes show high emission efficiencies and microsecond‐scale emission lifetimes. The photophysical data at 77 K show that emissions of these complexes are the mixture of phosphorescence and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF).</jats:p>","journal":"Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie","year":2021,"id":42334,"datarank":0.3247530846217659,"base_score":1.791759469228055,"endowment":1.791759469228055,"self_citation_contribution":0.26876392038420827,"citation_network_contribution":0.05598916423755761,"self_endowment_contribution":0.26876392038420827,"citer_contribution":0.05598916423755761,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":5,"citer_count":4,"citers_with_citation_signal":3,"citers_with_endowment":3,"datacite_reuse_total":2,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":118179,"name":"Teng Ma","orcid":"0000-0002-8360-1543","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":202799,"name":"Danli Ding","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":63856,"name":"Zhiqiang Wang","orcid":"0000-0001-7186-7099","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":198726,"name":"Mingzhu Li","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":202800,"name":"Shanshan Chen","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":202801,"name":"Zhongren Ma","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":202802,"name":"Sen Teng","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":202803,"name":"Yibo Du","orcid":null,"position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":202804,"name":"Tianci Zhang","orcid":null,"position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":202805,"name":"Chen Xu","orcid":"0000-0003-1589-736X","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":202798,"name":"Xingwei Cai","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"base_score":1.791759469228055,"endowment":1.791759469228055,"datacite_reuse_total":2,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"views":0,"has_version_chain":false,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"pmid":"18998881","pmcid":null,"openalex_id":"https://openalex.org/W3161852367","authors":[],"funders":[],"total_grants":0,"fwci":0.305,"citation_percentile":0.55556765,"influential_citations":0,"citation_trend":[{"year":2022,"count":1},{"year":2023,"count":1},{"year":2024,"count":1},{"year":2025,"count":1},{"year":2026,"count":1}],"oa_status":"closed","license":"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor","oa_locations":[{"url":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/zaac.202000470","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/zaac.202000470","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202000470","host_type":"journal"}],"fields_of_study":["Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research","N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry","Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions","Chemistry"],"mesh_terms":[],"keywords":["HOMO/LUMO","Carbene","Chemistry","Substituent","Phosphorescence","Photochemistry","Microsecond","Ligand (biochemistry)","Polar effect","Denticity","Fluorescence","Medicinal chemistry","Crystallography","Catalysis","Molecule","Organic chemistry","Crystal structure"],"sdg_mappings":[{"sdg_number":0,"sdg_label":"Affordable and clean energy"}],"linked_datasets":[{"doi":"10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc25f5wp","title":"CCDC 2008672: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination","publisher":"Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre","resource_type":"Dataset"},{"doi":"10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc25f5ph","title":"CCDC 2008666: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination","publisher":"Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre","resource_type":"Dataset"}],"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"database_accessions":[],"source":"live","citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-06-14T02:24:32.681490Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}