Quantification of C−H Quenching in Near-IR Luminescent Ytterbium and Neodymium Cryptates
摘要:
Two series of selectively deuterated cryptates with the lanthanoids Yb and Nd have been synthesized, and the luminescence lifetimes for the corresponding near-IR emission bands have been measured. Global fitting of these lifetime data combined with structural analysis allows for the accurate quantification of the contributions of individual C-H oscillators groups in the ligand to the nonradiative deactivation rates of the emissive lanthanoid states.
Quantification of C−H Quenching in Near-IR Luminescent Ytterbium and Neodymium Cryptates
摘要:
Two series of selectively deuterated cryptates with the lanthanoids Yb and Nd have been synthesized, and the luminescence lifetimes for the corresponding near-IR emission bands have been measured. Global fitting of these lifetime data combined with structural analysis allows for the accurate quantification of the contributions of individual C-H oscillators groups in the ligand to the nonradiative deactivation rates of the emissive lanthanoid states.
Near-IR emissive lanthanoid cryptates have been developed with the lanthanoids Yb, Nd, Er, and Pr by designing a fully deuterated ligand environment that greatly suppresses multiphonon nonradiative deactivation pathways through avoidance of high-energy oscillators and rigidification of the ligand backbone. Strong luminescence is observed in CD3CN for all four lanthanoids. Luminescence lifetimes in CD3CN are among the highest values for molecular complexes in solution reported so far (Yb, tau(obs) = 79 mu s; Nd, tau(obs) = 3.3 mu s). For the ytterbium cryptate, the highest luminescence lifetime can be obtained using CD3OD (tau(obs) = 91 mu s) and even in nondeuterated CH3CN the lifetime is still unusually high (tau(obs) = 53 mu s). X-ray crystallography and H-1 NMR analysis of the corresponding nondeuterated lutetium cryptate suggest that the inner coordination sphere in solution is completely saturated by the octadentate cryptand and one chloride counterion. All lanthanoid cryptates remarkably show complete stability during reversed-phase HPLC measurements under strongly acidic conditions.
Anomalous Reversal of C–H and C–D Quenching Efficiencies in Luminescent Praseodymium Cryptates
作者:Julia Scholten、Geraldine A. Rosser、Jessica Wahsner、Nicola Alzakhem、Caroline Bischof、Felix Stog、Andrew Beeby、Michael Seitz
DOI:10.1021/ja306052u
日期:2012.8.29
A series of selectively deuterated praseodymium cryptates has been synthesized. Their luminescence lifetimes in solution range from 150 to 595 ns for the (1)D(2) → (3)F(4) transition. Global fitting of the nonradiative deactivation rate differences of the isotopologic C-(H/D) oscillators revealed that aromatic C-D overtones anomalously quench the luminescence more than C-H vibrations. This is explained by the dominance of Franck-Condon overlap factors that greatly favor C-D oscillators, which are in almost ideal resonance with the relevant energy gap (1)D(2)-(1)G(4) of praseodymium.
Quantification of C−H Quenching in Near-IR Luminescent Ytterbium and Neodymium Cryptates
Two series of selectively deuterated cryptates with the lanthanoids Yb and Nd have been synthesized, and the luminescence lifetimes for the corresponding near-IR emission bands have been measured. Global fitting of these lifetime data combined with structural analysis allows for the accurate quantification of the contributions of individual C-H oscillators groups in the ligand to the nonradiative deactivation rates of the emissive lanthanoid states.