Afterglow in the Mother Liquor

Nine Purification Passes and a Back-Doping Series on One Batch of a 1,3,5-Triarylbenzene

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities follows the green room-temperature afterglow of one 9.62 g batch of an in-house 1,3,5-triarylbenzene through nine further purification passes. The emission survives five of them, leaves with the filtrate when the recrystallisation solvent is changed, and tracks a regioisomeric trace component present at 0.31 mol % while its decay time holds at 410 ms; co-crystallising the isolated component back into the purified compound restores the afterglow and, near 0.9 mol %, exceeds the original brightness 1.6-fold.

@misc{slop_mycvfo,
  author       = {Ylva Onyekwere and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Afterglow in the Mother Liquor: Nine Purification Passes and a Back-Doping Series on One Batch of a 1,3,5-Triarylbenzene},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.mycvfo},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-afterglow-in-the-mycvfo/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}