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Furthermore, the introduction of the substituent also affects their electric properties. Thus, if the materials were developed with the substituent effect on the optical and electric properties separately, it will be useful to design the functional materials related to both optical and electric properties. Herein, we investigated the substituent effect of dipyrrolo[1,2-a:2\u2032,1\u2032-c]quinoxalines on fluorescence properties. We synthesized the compounds bearing electron-donating or electron-withdrawing substituents at the benzene ring on dipyrrolo[1,2-a:2\u2032,1\u2032-c]quinoxaline, which would have more direct influence on the optical properties. By introducing each substituent at the 6 position of dipyrrolo[1,2-a:2\u2032,1\u2032-c]quinoxaline, the bathochromic shift was observed in the fluorescence spectra. In the case of fluorine substituent, the change of the fluorescence peak reached was about 19 nm. Using a TDDFT calculation, we explained the reason for such a substituent effect that large on the increment of LUMO energy or decrement of HOMO energy occurred by introducing electron-withdrawing or electron-donating substituents at the 6 position, respectively. The substituent effect on the change of orbital energies is typical although the different characteristics of substituents resulted in the similar tendency about the change of fluorescence peak. Furthermore, with the introduction of phenyl substituents at the 3 and 10 positions, we achieved 40\u201350 nm longer fluorescence peaks compared with that of the original dipyrrolo[1,2-a:2\u2032,1\u2032-c]quinoxaline.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules28072896","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,24]],"date-time":"2023-03-24T03:16:46Z","timestamp":1679627806000},"page":"2896","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Bathochromic Shift of Fluorescence Peak in Dipyrrolo[1,2-a:2\u2032,1\u2032-c]quinoxaline by Introducing Each of Electron-Donating and Electron-Withdrawing Substituent"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"28","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0417-8319","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shoji","family":"Matsumoto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Makoto","family":"Takamori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0970-9350","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Motohiro","family":"Akazome","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"110354","DOI":"10.1016\/j.dyepig.2022.110354","article-title":"Development and Application of Non-Conventional Luminophores with Aggregation Based Emission","volume":"205","author":"Wang","year":"2022","journal-title":"Dyes Pigment."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1605444","DOI":"10.1002\/adma.201605444","article-title":"Purely Organic Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes","volume":"29","author":"Wong","year":"2017","journal-title":"Adv. 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