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Charge-transfer emitters are attractive due to their color tunability and potentially high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs). We herein present tetraaminospirenes as donor moieties, which, in combination with a variety of acceptors, furnished 12 charge-transfer emitters with a range of emission colors and PLQYs of up to 99 %. The spatial separation of their frontier molecular orbitals was obtained through careful structural design, and two DA structures were confirmed by X-ray crystallography. A range of photophysical measurements supported by DFT calculations shed light on the optoelectronic properties of this new family of spiro-NN-donor-acceptor dyes.

Synthetic investigations towards spiroconjugated ketones and derivatives thereof are presented. These studies led to the development of a short procedure for the synthesis of spiroconjugated tetraketone 1 in two steps with 10 % overall yield and the first-time synthesis of spirocyclic trindone 2. The optoelectronic properties of these compounds based on spectroscopic and electrochemical measurements in combination with DFT calculations as well as their molecular structures in the solid state are presented and discussed.