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Achieving visible light excitation in carbazole-based Eu3+–β-diketonate complexes via molecular engineering†
Christian Heering,Ricardo O. Freire,M. L. P. Reddy,Christoph Janiak
RSC Advances Pub Date : 10/15/2015 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C5RA18819A
Abstract

Herein, we present the synthesis, characterization and photophysical properties of a series of Eu3+ complexes prepared with novel carbazole-based fluorinated β-diketones, namely, 4,4,5,5,5-pentafluoro-3-hydroxy-1-(9-phenyl-9H-carbazol-2-yl)pent-2-en-1-one (L1) and 4,4,5,5,5-pentafluoro-3-hydroxy-1-(9-(4-methoxyphenyl)-9H-carbazol-2-yl)pent-2-en-1-one (L2) as primary ligands and a bidentate phosphine oxide molecule, 4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)-9,9-dimethylxanthene oxide (DDXPO) as ancillary ligand. Using the Sparkle/PM3 model the molecular geometries of the designed complexes are optimized and the luminescent parameters are calculated by the LUMPAC software. The results demonstrated that suitably expanded π-conjugation in the developed Eu3+–carbazole based β-diketonate complexes dramatically red-shifted the excitation maximum to the visible region (λex,max = 420 nm) with an impressive quantum yield (34–42%). The triplet state energy levels of L1 and L2 in the complexes are higher than that of the lowest excited level of Eu3+ ion, 5D0, so the photoluminescence mechanism of the Eu3+ complexes was proposed as a ligand-sensitized luminescence process. The predicted luminescent parameters from the Sparkle/PM3 structures are in agreement with the experimental data, which shows the efficacy of the theoretical models adopted in the present study.

Graphical abstract: Achieving visible light excitation in carbazole-based Eu3+–β-diketonate complexes via molecular engineering
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