Magnetic Switching in Vapochromic Oxalato-Bridged 2D Copper(II)-Pyrazole Compounds for Biogenic Amine Sensing

Perspectives on Molecular Materials—A Tribute to Professor Peter Day

Professor Peter Day FRS was born on 20 August 1938 in Kent (UK) and attended Maidstone Grammar School [...]

Luminescent monomeric and dimeric Ru(ii) acyclic carbene complexes as selective sensors for NH3/amine vapor and humidity

A new class of luminescent bis(bipyridyl) Ru(ii) pyridyl acyclic carbene complexes with environmentally-sensitive dimerization equilibrium have been developed. Owing to the involvement of the orbitals of the diaminocarbene ligand in the emissive excited state, the phosphorescence properties of these complexes are strongly affected by H-bonding interactions with various H-bonding donor/acceptor molecules. With the remarkable differences in the emission properties of the monomer, dimer, and H-bonded amine adducts together with the change of the dimerization equilibrium, these complexes can be used as luminescent gas sensors for humidity, ammonia, and amine vapors. With the responses to amines and humidity and the corresponding change in the luminescence properties, a proof-of-principle for binary optical data storage with a reversible concealment process has been described.

Experimental and theoretical studies of a pyridylvinyl(benzoate) based coordination polymer structure

The electronic, adsorption and structural properties of a layered coordination polymer formed with 3,4-pvb− and copper(ii) were studied.