Luminescent polymorphic aggregates of trinuclear Cu(i)–pyrazolate tuned by intertrimeric Cu⋯NPy weak coordination bonds
- 24 December 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Dalton Transactions
- Vol. 50 (5), 1733-1739
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d0dt03661g
Abstract
Five luminescent polymorphic aggregates of trinuclear Cu(I)–pyrazolate, namely [anti-Cu3L3]2 (1), [syn-Cu3L3·C2H5OH]2 (2), [anti-Cu3L3·C2H5OH]n (3), [anti-Cu3L3·0.5C7H8]n (4) and [syn-Cu3L3·C8H10]n (5) (HL = 4-(pyridin-4-ylthio)-3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazole), were reported. The trimeric Cu3L3 fragments present syn- and anti-conformations dependent on the dangled direction of 4-pyridyl groups on the two sides of the Cu3Pz3 plane (Pz = pyrazolate). Intertrimeric NPy⋯Cu weak coordination bonds associate these Cu3L3 fragments together to form dimeric or polymeric structures, which are further stabilized by crystallized solvent molecules or intertrimeric Cu⋯Cu interactions. The solvated complexes (3–5) may be transformed into the unsolvated complex 1 by evacuation of the crystallized solvents upon heating. All these complexes emit from green to yellow under UV irradiation, which originated from the triplet excited states of metal to ligand charge transfer (3MLCT) mixed with intertrimeric Cu⋯Cu interactions. This work provides a novel kind of supramolecular aggregate based on Cu3Pz3 beyond the classical π-acid⋯base adducts and metallophilicity-dependent dimers/oligomers.Keywords
Funding Information
- Major Projects of Guangdong Education Department for Foundation Research and Applied Research (2019B030302009, 2019A1515012162)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21471094, 21731002, 21975104, 22071141)
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