摘要:
A series of new mononuclear lanthanide(III)-salicylaldimine complexes of the type [Ln(LH)(3)(NO3)(3)] (Ln = La, Pr, Sm and Gd: LH = N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-4n-alkoxysalicylaldimine, n = 14, 18) have been synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, H-1 NMR, C-13 NMR, UV-Vis, FAB-mass and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The ligand (LH) coordinate to lanthanide ions in zwitterionic form via the phenolic-oxygen with the proton shifted to the imine-nitrogen. The nitrato groups occurring in chelated bidentate fashion complete a nine-coordinate geometry. Polarized optical microscopy (POM) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) show that the ligands are monotropic and their complexes exhibit enantiotropic highly viscous smectic A (SmA) mesophase in the temperature range 60-185 degrees C. A bilayer self organized assembly of the molecules in the mesophase are proposed on the basis of the small angle XRD study. The ligands are blue light emitters with a broad emission maxima at similar to 447 nm while the lanthanide complexes show intense emission in the visible range (similar to 465-679 nm) at 350 nm excitation. The samarium(III) complex, I Sm(LH)3(NO3)31 is distinct from the rest in emitting bright orange light (similar to 660 nm, Phi = 48%). The S-o-S-1 excitation band being stronger than the direct f-f excitation in the samarium complex clearly suggests that the Schiff-base ligands efficiently sensitize the luminescence of Sm3+. DFT calculations have been performed using DMol3 program at BLYP/DNP level to obtain the stable electronic structure of the ligand and complex. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.