Structure of triaquatris(1,1,1-trifluoro-4-oxopentan-2-olato)cerium(III) as a possible fluorescent compound

Autor: Kenji Toda, Taoyun Zhu, Atsushi Itadani, Atsuya Koizumi, Takuya Hasegawa, Mineo Sato
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications
ISSN: 2056-9890
DOI: 10.1107/s2056989018001135
Popis: The title complex has two kinds of ligands, tri­fluoro­acetyl­acetonate and water. As a result of the presence of F atoms in the 1,1,1-tri­fluoro-4-oxo­pentan-2-olate ligand, the metal–metal distance is longer than in the case of the analogous yttrium complex containing an acetyl­acetonato ligand and also for the analogous lanthanum complex containing acetyl­acetonate.
Luminescence due to the d–f transition of Ce3+ is quite rare in metal–organic complexes where concentrate quenching frequently occurs. One of the possible ways to avoid this is to design an architecture with elongated metal–metal distances. In the structure of the title complex, tri­aqua­tris­(1,1,1-tri­fluoro-4-oxo­pentan-2-olato-κ2 O,O′)cerium(III), [Ce(C5H4F3O2)3(H2O)3], the CeIII complex is linked to neighbouring ones by hydrogen bonding. Within the complex, the CeIII atom is coordinated by nine O atoms from three 1,1,1-tri­fluoro-4-oxo­pentan-2-olate (tfa) anions as bidentate ligands and three water mol­ecules as monodentate ligands. Thus, the coordination number of CeIII atom is nine in a monocapped square–anti­prismatic polyhedron. The F atoms of all three independent CF3 groups in tfa are disordered over two positions with occupancy ratios of about 0.8:0.2. The inter­molecular hydrogen bonds between the ligands involve tfa–water inter­actions along the [110] and [1-10] directions, generating an overall two-dimensional layered network structure. The presence of the F atoms in the tfa anion is responsible for an increased inter­molecular metal–metal distance compared to that in the analogous acetyl­acetonate (acac) derivatives. Fluorescence from Ce3+ is, however, not observed.
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