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Metal-Assisted Synthesis of Extended Polyaromatic Nitrogen-Rich Ligands for Tunable Sensitization of Eu(III) Complexes

Published inInorganic chemistry, vol. 64, no. 8, p. 3941-3958; 4c05202
First online date2025-02-17
Abstract

We report the metal-assisted synthesis of oligomeric nitrogen-rich DiL1 and PoL1 n sensitizers from the monomer L1 via acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization for the tuning of the photoluminescence properties of europium-containing complexes by ligand design. The binding of [Eu(hfac)3 ] cargoes (H-hfac = 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoropentane-2,4-dione) to monomer L1 to give [L1 Eu(hfac)3 ] during metathesis appeared to be essential (i) for protecting the Grubbs ruthenium catalyst to interact with the nitrogen atoms of L1 and (ii) to drive the Ru-catalyzed ADMET reaction toward dimeric {DiL1 [Eu(hfac)3 ]2 } and polymeric {PoL1 n [Eu(hfac)3 ] n } assemblies. Compared with the monomeric tridentate L1 -L4 ligands, significant electronic delocalization occurs through the π-conjugated benzimidazole-CH═CH-benzimidazole skeletons in the dimer DiL1 and polymers PoL1 n , which results in a stepwise red-shift of the excited levels in these extended polyaromatic ligands. As a consequence, the sensitization of bound [Eu(hfac)3 ] units reveals a decrease of the photoluminescence quantum yields along the [L4 Eu(hfac)3 ] > [L3 Eu(hfac)3 ] > [L2 Eu(hfac)3 ] ≈ [L1 Eu(hfac)3 ] > {DiL1 [Eu(hfac)3 ]2 } > {PoL1 18 [Eu(hfac)3 ]18 } series due to unfavorable europium-to-ligand back energy transfers.

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LE, Hoang Giau et al. Metal-Assisted Synthesis of Extended Polyaromatic Nitrogen-Rich Ligands for Tunable Sensitization of Eu(III) Complexes. In: Inorganic chemistry, 2025, vol. 64, n° 8, p. 3941–3958. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c05202
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