title: Designing Tunable White-Light Emission from an Aurophilic Cu(I) /Au(I) Coordination Polymer with Thioether Ligands.
abstract: White-light emitters have attracted considerable attention due to their importance in current and future technologies. By incorporating molecular fragments that independently emit in the blue, green/yellow, and red visible regions, specifically Cu-NC, Au⋅⋅⋅Au interactions, and Cu-SR2 , respectively, into a single material, new white-light-emitting systems have been targeted. With this goal, three new Cu(I) /thioether-based coordination polymers containing bridging [Au(CN)2 ](-) units have been synthesized and structurally characterized, and their photoluminescence properties (at room and low temperatures) have been delineated. Using this approach, white-light emission (tunable from slightly yellow to slightly blue, depending on λex ) is generated from Cu(Me2 S)[Au(CN)2 ], a feature uncommon in such simple coordination compounds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada.
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-2114-0443
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ovens
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada).
authors.forename: Peter R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Christensen
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada. dleznoff@sfu.ca.
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3426-2848
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Leznoff
keywords: S ligands; aurophilic networks; coordination polymers; interpenetrating networks; luminescence