Synthesis of reactive [Al(Et)(q′)2] (q′=2-methyl-8-quinolinolato) serving as a precursor of light emitting aluminum complexes: Reactivity, optical properties, and fluxional behavior of the aluminum complexes

Thermo-enhanced ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone: the synthesis, characterization, and catalytic behavior of aluminum hydroquinolin-8-olates

A series of highly sensitive aluminum hydroquinolin-8-olates (C1-C8) was synthesized and characterized by ¹H/¹³C NMR spectroscopy. The molecular structures of compounds C1, C3, C4, and C5 were confirmed by single crystal X-ray crystallography and demonstrated the binuclear form. In the presence of BnOH, all the aluminum complexes exhibited moderate to high activities towards the ring-opening polymerization of ε-CL at high temperatures, but quite low activities at ambient temperature. Microstructure analysis of the resultant polycaprolactones showed that the polymers were linear in nature with a BnO- end group. In addition, the mechanism was investigated by monitoring the ¹H NMR and ²⁷Al NMR of C1 and these results suggested that the complexes existed as dimeric species at low temperature and partly converted into active mononuclear species at higher temperatures, which was easily coordinated by BnOH to afford the active species for the ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone.

Metal complexes containing nitrogen-heterocycle based aryloxide or arylamido derivatives as discrete catalysts for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters

This perspective highlights some recent advances in the field of discrete N-heterocyclic aryloxide/arylamido metal complexes for ROP of lactones.

AEE-active cyclic tetraphenylsilole derivatives with ∼100% solid-state fluorescence quantum efficiency

Two new strongly AEE active (I/I0 ≈ 94) tetraphenylsilole-containing cyclosiloxanes with cyan emissions (λem = 500 nm) and ∼100% solid state fluorescence quantum yields are reported. The intra- and intermolecular C-Hπ interactions in the crystal play a major role in the observed high solid state fluorescence quantum yields.

Errors in the calculation of (27)Al nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts

Computational chemistry is an important tool for signal assignment of 27Al nuclear magnetic resonance spectra in order to elucidate the species of aluminum(III) in aqueous solutions. The accuracy of the popular theoretical models for computing the 27Al chemical shifts was evaluated by comparing the calculated and experimental chemical shifts in more than one hundred aluminum(III) complexes. In order to differentiate the error due to the chemical shielding tensor calculation from that due to the inadequacy of the molecular geometry prediction, single-crystal X-ray diffraction determined structures were used to build the isolated molecule models for calculating the chemical shifts. The results were compared with those obtained using the calculated geometries at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level. The isotropic chemical shielding constants computed at different levels have strong linear correlations even though the absolute values differ in tens of ppm. The root-mean-square difference between the experimental chemical shifts and the calculated values is approximately 5 ppm for the calculations based on the X-ray structures, but more than 10 ppm for the calculations based on the computed geometries. The result indicates that the popular theoretical models are adequate in calculating the chemical shifts while an accurate molecular geometry is more critical.

Combined effects of one 8-hydroxyquinoline/picolinate and "CH"/N substitutions on the geometry, electronic structure and optical properties of mer-Alq(3)

With the aim of evaluating the combined effect of one 8-hydroxyquinoline (q)/picolinate (p) and "CH"/N substitutions on the molecular geometry, electronic structure, and optical properties of tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum [Alq(3)], the density functional theory (B3LYP) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-B3LYP), using the 6-31G(d) and 3-21+G(d,p) basis sets were applied on Alq(3), Alq(2)p, and its "CH"/N-substitution derivatives. A comparison of the optimized ground-state (S(0)) geometries has shown that the molecular shape is conserved upon such a substitution. On the basis of the frontier molecular orbital and gap energy (E(g)) calculations, it was shown that, comparatively to the pristine Alq(2)p (and to the original parent Alq(3)), the HOMO and LUMO are stabilized, the net effect being an increasing or a decreasing E(g), depending on the position of the substituted group. The substitution of q(B) by p (from Alq(3) to Alq(2)p) was also found to induce the same feature. Starting from the S(0) and S(1) (first excited state) geometries, the effect of the substitution on the absorption (and emission) spectra was evaluated. It was found that the "CH"/N substitution in different positions on the two 8-hydroxyquinoline ligands may also constitute an efficient approach of tuning the Alq(2)p emitting color. In comparison with both Alq(3) and Alq(2)p, an important blue shift was predicted for the 5-substituted derivative, an important red shift being observed for the 4-substituted one. Also, relatively significant blue and red shifts were predicted for the 7- and 2-substituted derivatives. Finally, revisiting the correlation between the spectrum shifts and the metal-ligand bonding, our recent findings (2) were confirmed.

8-Hydroxy-2-methylquinoline

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C₁₀H₉NO, contains two independent mol­ecules which are linked by a pair of O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds into a hydrogen-bonded dimer.