摘要:
A blue luminescent high-spin (s = 5/2) iron(III) complex, [Fe-III(HL1)(2)]Cl (2), was synthesized with the acyclic tridentate salicylaldehyde 2-pyridyl hydrazone ligand, H2L1 (1), and it can subsequently be deprotonated and methylated into blue luminescent iron(111) complexes, [Fe-III(L-2)(2)]Cl (3) and [Fe-III(MeL1)(2)]Cl (4) respectively. On excitation at 390 nm, the ligand and the complexes display fluorescence in the blue region (lambda(em) = 440-450 nm) of the spectrum. The association constant, (K-ass = 4.6421 x 10(4) at 298 K) and the thermodynamic parameters for complex 2 have been determined by UV-Vis spectroscopy. The iron(III)-iron(II) reduction potentials lie near -0.2 V versus SCE. The X-ray crystal structure of the complex, [Fe-III(HL1)(2)]Cl center dot H2O (2), was determined, revealing meridional binding of the two ligands affording a cis-FeN4O2 geometry with alternate chlorine and water molecules at the interface of the main molecule, resulting in interesting interlayer O-H center dot center dot center dot Cl bridging. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.