Accessing Lanthanide-to-Lanthanide Energy Transfer in a Family of Site-Resolved [LnIIILnIII′] Heterodimetallic Complexes

The ligand HL (6-[3-oxo-3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)propionyl]pyridine-2-carboxylic acid), which exhibits two different coordination pockets, has been exploited to engender and study energy transfer (ET) in two dinuclear [LnLn′] analogues of interest, [EuYb] and [NdYb]. Their structural and physical properti...

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Autores: Abad Galán, Laura, Aguilà, David, Guyot, Yannick, Velasco, Verónica, Roubeau, Olivier, Teat, Simon J., Massi, M., Aromí, Guillem
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/264013
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/264013
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Coordination chemistry
Energy transfer
Heterometallic complexes
Lanthanides
Photophysics
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Sumario:The ligand HL (6-[3-oxo-3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)propionyl]pyridine-2-carboxylic acid), which exhibits two different coordination pockets, has been exploited to engender and study energy transfer (ET) in two dinuclear [LnLn′] analogues of interest, [EuYb] and [NdYb]. Their structural and physical properties have been compared with newly synthesised analogues featuring no possible ET ([EuLu], [NdLu], and [GdYb]) and with the corresponding homometallic [EuEu] and [NdNd] analogues, which have been previously reported. Photophysical data suggest that ET between Eu and Yb does not occur to a significant extent, whereas emission from Yb originates from sensitisation of the ligand. In contrast, energy migration seems to be occurring between the two Nd centres in [NdNd], as well as in [NdYb], in which Yb luminescence is thus, in part, sensitised by ET from Nd. This study shows the versatility of this molecular platform to further the investigation of lanthanide-to-lanthanide ET phenomena in defined molecular systems.