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Published on: March 9, 2017
Anion-Directed Regulation of Structures and Luminescence of Heterometallic Clusters
Jiao-Jiao Li1, Chun-Yu Liu1, Zong-Jie Guan1
1Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Anions have been used to regulate the structures and luminescence of heterometallic clusters. Introducing ClO4 - into orange-emissive, butterfly-like [(C)(Au-PPhpy2 )6 Ag4 ](BF4 )6 (1, PPhpy2 =bis(2-pyridyl)phenylphosphine) leads to the formation of red-emissive [(C)(Au-PPhpy2 )6 Ag5 (ClO4 )3 ](ClO4 )4 (2) with a novel trigonal bipyramidal structure; employing PhCO2 - gives yellow-emissive, hexagram-like [(C)(Au-PPhpy2 )6 Ag6 (PhCO2 )3 ](BF4 )5 (3). Notably, 1 exhibits weak luminescence in CH2 Cl2 /CH3 OH=1 : 1 (v : v) with a quantum yield (QY) of 0.05, whereas it was dramatically increased to 0.49 and 0.83 for 2 and 3, respectively. Theoretical calculation confirms that the involvement of anions in the electronic structures is responsible for the shifts of emission. The high QYs of 2 and 3 are attributed to the protection provided by ligands and anions. This work demonstrates that anions may serve as an extra designable factor beyond just counterions for functional metal clusters.
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