Tunable trimers: using temperature and pressure to control luminescent emission in gold(I) pyrazolate-based trimers.

Autor: Woodall CH; Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY (UK)., Fuertes S, Beavers CM, Hatcher LE, Parlett A, Shepherd HJ, Christensen J, Teat SJ, Intissar M, Rodrigue-Witchel A, Suffren Y, Reber C, Hendon CH, Tiana D, Walsh A, Raithby PR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) [Chemistry] 2014 Dec 15; Vol. 20 (51), pp. 16933-42. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Oct 21.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404058
Abstrakt: A systematic investigation into the relationship between the solid-state luminescence and the intermolecular Au⋅⋅⋅Au interactions in a series of pyrazolate-based gold(I) trimers; tris(μ2 -pyrazolato-N,N')-tri-gold(I) (1), tris(μ2 -3,4,5- trimethylpyrazolato-N,N')-tri-gold(I) (2), tris(μ2 -3-methyl-5-phenylpyrazolato-N,N')-tri-gold(I) (3) and tris(μ2 -3,5-diphenylpyrazolato-N,N')-tri-gold(I) (4) has been carried out using variable temperature and high pressure X-ray crystallography, solid-state emission spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and computational techniques. Single-crystal X-ray studies show that there is a significant reduction in the intertrimer Au⋅⋅⋅Au distances both with decreasing temperature and increasing pressure. In the four complexes, the reduction in temperature from 293 to 100 K is accompanied by a reduction in the shortest intermolecular Au⋅⋅⋅Au contacts of between 0.04 and 0.08 Å. The solid-state luminescent emission spectra of 1 and 2 display a red shift with decreasing temperature or increasing pressure. Compound 3 does not emit under ambient conditions but displays increasingly red-shifted luminescence upon cooling or compression. Compound 4 remains emissionless, consistent with the absence of intermolecular Au⋅⋅⋅Au interactions. The largest pressure induced shift in emission is observed in 2 with a red shift of approximately 630 cm(-1) per GPa between ambient and 3.80 GPa. The shifts in all the complexes can be correlated with changes in Au⋅⋅⋅Au distance observed by diffraction.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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