ISSN 0036ꢀ0236, Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2011, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 899–905. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2011.
Original Russian Text © S.B. Meshkova, V.S. Matiichuk, M.A. Potopnyk, Z.M. Topilova, V.P. Gorodnyuk, K.N. Olenich, I.V. Bol’bot, 2011, published in Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi
Khimii, 2011, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 957–963.
COORDINATION
COMPOUNDS
IR Luminescence of Neodymium(III) and Ytterbium(III) Complexes
with Acylpyrazolones in Solutions
S. B. Meshkovaa, V. S. Matiichukb, M. A. Potopnykb, Z. M. Topilovaa,
V. P. Gorodnyuka, K. N. Olenicha, and I. V. Bol’bota
a Bogatskii Physicochemical Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Lyustdorfskaya doroga 86, Odessa, 65080 Ukraine
b Franko National University, Universitetskaya ul. 1, Lviv, 79000 Ukraine
Received October 15, 2009
Abstract—Acylpyrazolones (L1–L5) have been synthesized and the conditions of their complexation with
neodymium(III) and ytterbium(III) ions in aqueous solutions have been elucidated. The component ratio in
the synthesized complexes is Nd(Yb) : L = 1 : 1. The conditions of excitation and luminescence of the ligands
and complexes have been studied. The formation of mixedꢀligand complexes upon the introduction of trioꢀ
ctylꢀ or triphenylphosphine oxide leads to a considerable rise of neodymium and ytterbium. In the presence
of 1,10ꢀphenanthroline and bathophenanthroline, competing complexation leads to a 20–70% decrease in
luminescence intensity. The introduction of waterꢀmiscible organic solvents (30 vol %) decreases the Nd(III)
and Yb(III) luminescence intensity by a factor of 9–20.
DOI: 10.1134/S0036023611060179
Unique spectroscopic properties of lanthanide ditions of formation and luminescence spectral propꢀ
(Ln) ions with an unfilled 4f shell in both simple salts erties of the Nd(III) and Yb(III) complexes with
and complexes with different organic reagents account acylpyrazolones.
for their use in scientific research and engineering, as
luminescent labels in biology and medicine, etc. The
narrowꢀband luminescence of these ions makes it posꢀ
sible to obtain pure red, green, and blue light emission
EXPERIMENTAL
In the work, we used 4ꢀarylꢀ5ꢀmethylꢀ2,4,dihydroꢀ
Hꢀpyrazolꢀ3ꢀones (L1–L5), which were synthesized
owing to energy transfer from the ligand in the excited
state to the Ln(III) ion. To this end, the triplet level of
the ligand must be higher than the emitting level of the
3
by the reaction of 3ꢀmethylꢀ1Hꢀ1ꢀphenylꢀ5ꢀpyraꢀ
zolone with corresponding carboxylic acid chlorides.
The purity of the synthesized acylpyrazolones was
checked by 1H NMR, IR spectroscopy, and elemental
analysis. The ligands used in the work were listed in
lanthanide; therefore, Eu(III) and Tb(III)
nates, binary and mixedꢀligand, have long been used.
The ligands in these compounds are ꢀdiketones, such
β
ꢀdiketoꢀ
β
as acetylꢀ, thienylꢀ, and benzoylacetones and their
analogues, including fluorinated ones. In addition to
Table 1. Initial (1 ×
10–2 M) ethanol solutions of
Nd(III) and Yb(III) chlorides were prepared by disꢀ
solving the oxides (99.99%) in HCl; then an HCl
excess was removed by evaporation to wet salts, which
were dissolved in twiceꢀdistilled water, and the soluꢀ
tions were made up to the required volume in a voluꢀ
metric flask. The exact concentration of lanthanides
was determined by titration of the chloride solutions
with an EDTA solution in the presence of Arsenazo I.
1,10ꢀPhenanthroline (Phen), bathophenanthroline
(bathoPhen), trioctylphosphine oxide (TOPO), and
triphenylphosphine oxide (TPPO) were used as secꢀ
βꢀdiketones, pyrazolones have also been used for
observation of luminescence of the Tb(III) and
Dy(III) ions [1]. The use of acylpyrazolones for
observing strong Tb(III) luminescence has only been
recently reported [2, 3].
The properties of lanthanide and other metal comꢀ
plexes with acylpyrazolones have been extensively
studied in the past decade in the context of their use as
the lightꢀemitting layers in electroluminescent
devices, which are being increasingly widely applied to
create multiꢀcolor flatꢀpanel displays and efficient
light sources [4–7].
ond ligands. Their 1 ×
10–1 M solutions in ethanol were
prepared from accurately weighed samples. Working
solutions of the ligands and lanthanides were prepared
by diluting the initial solutions.
However, almost no information is available on the
IR luminescence of Nd(III) and Yb(III) in complexes
with acylpyrazolones [6–8], which can be of interest
Binary and mixedꢀligand complexes were obtained
for designing fiber amplifiers in broadband telecomꢀ by mixing solutions of Nd (Yb) chlorides and the
munication devices. In this work, we studied the conꢀ ligand(s) at an optimal complexation pH. To achieve
899