Comment on ‘aggregation-induced phosphorescent emission (AIPE) of iridium(iii) complexes’: origin of the enhanced phosphorescence

Abstract

An investigation of the photophysics of Ir(III) complexes with controlled ligand structures and our quantum chemical calculations attest that the most probable explanation for the reported 'aggregation-induced phosphorescent emission', which was originally claimed to be related to an intermolecular excimer, is restricted intramolecular motion.