Luminescent lanthanide complexes with phosphoramide and arylphosphonic diamide ligands

Layered Perovskite Doping with Eu3+ and β-diketonate Eu3+ Complex

Metal halide perovskites are attracting great interest for the fabrication of light-emitting devices encompassing light-emitting diodes, lasers, and scintillators. As the field develops, perovskite doping emerges as a promising way to enrich the material functionalities and enhance the luminescence yield and tunability. While Mn⁺² addition has been well explored, doping with lanthanides has received less attention, even though their intense and line-like luminescence is interesting for a wide range of applications. In this work, we study the doping of NMA₂PbBr₄ layered perovskites with Eu³⁺ and Eu³⁺ tetrakis β-diketonate complex. By exploiting the antenna effect of the naphthalene-based functional cation (NMA = 1-naphtylmethylammonium), direct sensitization of Eu³⁺ is obtained; nevertheless, it is not very efficient due to the non-optimal energy level alignment with the resonance acceptor level of the lanthanide. Protection of Eu³⁺ in the form of tetrakis β-diketonate complex grants a more ideal coordination geometry and energetic landscape for the energy transfer to europium in the perovskite matrix, allowing for a nearly 30-fold improvement in luminescence yield. This work sets the basis for new synthetic strategies for the design of functional perovskite/lanthanide host-guest systems with improved luminescence properties.

Synthesis and photoluminescence of manganese(II) naphtylphosphonic diamide complexes

Manganese(ii) halide complexes with N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-P-naphtalen-2-ylphosphonic diamide were synthesized from anhydrous MnX2 salts (X = Cl, Br, I) and characterized. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed in all the cases slightly distorted tetrahedral geometry of the coordination sphere. The photoluminescence spectra showed the superimposition of a green emission, related to the 4T1(4G) → 6A1(6S) transition of Mn(ii), with a band in the red range. Different possible attributions to the lowest-energy emission were taken into account. The emission spectra of the isolated products are dependent upon the nature of the halide and, in the case of X = Br, also upon the excitation wavelength.

Light harvesting indolyl-substituted phosphoramide ligand for the enhancement of Mn(ii) luminescence

Excitation of the coordinated ligands in tetrahedral complexes having the general formula [MnX₂L₂] (X = Cl, Br, I; L = N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-P-indol-1-ylphosphonic diamide) causes bright green luminescence from the Mn(ii) centre.