Effect of the Counterion on Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Europium(III) and Samarium(III) Complexes
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- 18 March 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Inorganic Chemistry
- Vol. 59 (7), 5050-5062
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00280
Abstract
Each enantiopure europium(III) and samarium(III) nitrate and triflate complex of the ligand L, with L = N,N′-bis(2-pyridylmethylidene)-1,2-(R,R + S,S)-cyclohexanediamine ([LnL(tta)2]·NO3 and [LnL(tta)2(H2O)]·CF3SO3, where tta = 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetylacetonate) has been synthesized and characterized from a spectroscopic point of view, using a chiroptical technique such as electronic circular dichroism (ECD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL). In all cases, both ligands are capable of sensitizing the luminescence of both metal ions upon absorption of light around 280 and 350 nm. Despite small differences in the total luminescence (TL) and ECD spectra, the CPL activity of the complexes is strongly influenced by a concurrent effect of the solvent and counterion. This particularly applies to europium(III) complexes where the CPL spectra in acetonitrile can be described as a weighed linear combination of the CPL spectra in dichloromethane and methanol, which show nearly opposite signatures when their ligand stereochemistries are the same. This phenomenon could be related to the presence of equilibria interconverting solvated, anion-coordinated complexes and isomers differing by the relative orientation of the tta ligands. The difference between some bond lengths (M–N bonds, in particular) in the different species could be at the basis of such an unusual CPL activity.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministero dell?Istruzione, dell?Universit? e della Ricerca (20172M3K5N)
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