Luminescence properties of cyclopalladated complexes with Schiff base ligands
摘要:
Direct reaction between the hydroxo-complexes [{Pd(mu-OH)((CN)-N-boolean AND)}(2)] ((CN)-N-boolean AND = 2-(2-pyridyl)phenyl (Phpy) I; (CN)-N-boolean AND = 7,8-benzoquinolyl (Bzq) II) and N-naphtylsalycilaldimine (N-naphsal) 1 yields new mononuclear cyclometallated palladium(II) complexes[Pd(N-naphsal)((CN)-N-boolean AND)] (I1, II1). Photophysical properties were investigated together with those of complexes with related ligands N-phenylsalycilaldiminate (N-Phsal) 2, N-p-chlorophenylsalycilaldiminate (N-pClPhsal) 3. All the compounds absorb intensely below 300 nm via (LC)-L-1 transitions located in Bzq or Phpy ligands, and display additional low energy absorptions of mixed (MLCT)-M-1-(LC)-L-1 character. The complexes under study are quite unusual in terms of luminescence behavior, since some of them are emissive in solution at room temperature and all display intense emissions in frozen CHCl3 solution, but also in solid state at 298 and 77 K. Structural characterization by X-ray diffraction of complexes I2, I3 and II2 confirmed the proposed formulae. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.