title: Effect of different alkyl groups at the N-position on the luminescence of carbazole-based beta-diketonate europium(III) complexes.
abstract: A series of carbazole-based beta-diketone derivatives and their europium(III) ternary complexes Eu(N-Cx)(3)phen were designed and synthesized, where N-Cx denotes carbazole-based beta-diketonates with different alkyl substituents at N-position of the carbazole ring and phen is 1,10-phenethroline. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) shows that the decomposition temperature of the complexes is over 360 degrees C. UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, photoluminescence (PL), and the luminescence quantum yield of the Eu(III) complexes were measured and compared with each other, and the effect of different substituted-alkyls at N-position in the carbazole ring on the photoluminescence was discussed in details, indicating there exists a competition between the absorption capacity and the energy transfer efficiency for the complexes when the structure of the substituted-alkyls changes. The triplet state energy levels of the beta-diketonate ligands in the complexes are higher than that of the lowest excited level of Eu(3+) ion, (5)D(0), so the photoluminescence mechanism of the Eu(III) complexes was proposed as a ligand-sensitized luminescence process. Red LEDs were fabricated by precoating the complexes onto 395 nm emitting InGaN chips. All the results show that this series of Eu(III) complexes is a promising candidate as a red component in fabrication of NUV-based white LEDs.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Ministry of Education Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China.
authors.forename: Pei
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Huihui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shenggui
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jianxin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Menglian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gong
mesh_terms: D002227:Carbazoles / Q000737:chemistry*; D005063:Europium / Q000737:chemistry*; D007659:Ketones / Q000737:chemistry*; D008024:Ligands; D049449:Luminescence; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002227:Carbazoles; D007659:Ketones; D008024:Ligands; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; C041514:carbazole; D005063:Europium