ANTENNA EFFECT IN LUMINESCENT LANTHANIDE CRYPTATES - A PHOTOPHYSICAL STUDY
ANTENNA EFFECT IN LUMINESCENT LANTHANIDE CRYPTATES - A PHOTOPHYSICAL STUDY
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1751-1097.1990.tb04185.x
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发表时间:
1990-08-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
SABBATINI, N
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作者:
ALPHA, B;BALLARDINI, R;SABBATINI, N
Excited state emission and absorption decay measurements have been made on the cage-type cryptate complexes [M .cntnd. bpy.bpy.bpy]n+, where Mn+ = Na+, La3+, Eu3+, Gd3+ or Tb3+ and [bpy.bpy.bpy] is a tris-bipyridine macrobicyclic cryptand. Excitation has been performed in the high intensity 1.pi..pi.* cryptand band with maximum at about 300 nm. Experiments have been carried out in H2O or D2O solutions and a 300 and 77 K to evaluate the rate constants of radiative and nonradiative decay processes. For Mn+ = Na+, La3+ and Gd3+ the lowest excited state of the cryptate is a 3.pi..pi.* level of the cryptand which decays in the microsecond time scale at room temperature in H2O solution and in the second-millisecond time scale at 77 K in MeOH-EtOH. For Mn+ = Eu3+, the lowest excited state is the luminescent 5D0 Eu3+ level which in H2O solution is populated with 10% efficiency and decays to the ground state with rate constants 2.9 .times. 103 s-1 at room temperature and 1.2 .times. 103 s-1 at 77 K. The relatively low efficiency of 5D0 population upon 1.pi..pi.* excitation is attributed to the presence of a ligand-to-metal charge transfer level through which 1.pi..pi.* decays directly to the ground state. For Mn+ = Tb3+ the lowest excited state is the luminescent 5D4 Tb3+ level. The process of 5D4 population upon 1.pi..pi.* excitation is .apprx.100% efficient, but at room temperature it is followed by a high-efficiency, activated back energy transfer from the 5D4 Tb3+ level to the 3.pi..pi.* ligand level because of the relatively small energy gap between the two levels (1200 cm-1) and the intrinsically long lifetime of 5D4. At 77 K back energy transfer cannot take place and the 5D4 Tb3+ level deactivates to the ground state with rate constant 5.9 .times. 102 S-1 (H2O solution). The relevance of these results toward the optimization of Eu3+ and Tb3+ cryptates as luminescent probes is discussed.