Inorg Chem
Key Laboratory of Magnetic Molecules and Magnetic Information Materials of Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Materials Science of Shanxi Normal University, Taiyuan 030032, China.
Published: March 2023
Photochromic viologen-based materials have emerged as one of the most promising candidates for the development of X-ray light detection applications, including medical diagnosis and treatment, environmental radiation inspection, and industrial crack detection. However, the design and construction of low-dose X-ray-sensitive complexes remains an immense challenge, especially for the in-depth dissection of their response mechanisms. Herein, by using ,'-4,4'-bipyridiniodipropionate (CV) as functional sensitive structural units and cadmium as heavy atoms, two cadmium-viologen complexes with one-dimensional chained structures, namely, [CdCl(CV)(HO)] () and [CdBr(CV)] (), have been constructed, which exhibit a remarkable and selective photochromic response to low-dose X-ray radiation detection. Compound is visually sensitive to both X-ray and UV light due to the more accessible photoinduced electron transfer (ET) pathways, while compound only shows a slight color-changing process in response to UV light, in conformity with UV-vis absorbance analyses and kinetic studies. Surprisingly, compound has longer ET pathways than , but not in response to high-energy X-ray light, seeming to contradict the previous phenomena. On further analysis, the key point in achieving X-ray-sensitive behavior should be a good balance among the electron donor-acceptor distance, intermolecular interaction, and X-ray absorbing capacity, as verified by density functional theory (DFT) and X-ray absorption strength calculations, X-ray photoelectron spectra, electron paramagnetic resonance measurements, and independent gradient model analysis. In particular, compound is unprecedentedly sensitive to soft X-ray radiation, accompanied by an X-ray detection limit of as low as 2.91 Gy. These findings push forward the further development of low-dose X-ray sensing materials.
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