Royal Society of Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, 46(51), p. 17664-17670, 2022
DOI: 10.1039/d2dt02950b
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Steric protection strongly reduces phosphorescence quenching of excited molecular rubies by oxygen. The most bulky ligand enables photoluminescence quantum yields up to 5.1% and lifetimes up to 518 µs in air-saturated acetonitrile.