Synthesis, Characterization and Luminescence Properties of Rare Earth Complexes with Bis （Pyridinyl-Amide）

A ligand, N^1, N^4-di （ pyridin-2-yl ） succi- namide （L） and its lanthanide（ IH ） complexes （RE = La, Eu, Tb, Gd, Yb ） were synthesized and characterized in detail. The results indicate that the composition of the binary complexes is determined as REL （H2O）2（NO3）2] NO3, that the complexes are 1 ： 1 electrolytes in DMF, and that the Tb^3＋ complex has brightly green fluorescence in a solid state. At the same time, the energy levels of the excited triplet states for the six ligands were determined to be 22989 -1 cm . The fact that the ligand sensitize Tb^3＋ complexes was explained by the relative energy gap between the lowest triplet energy level of the ligand （T） and ^5Dj of Tb^3＋ or Eu^3＋ . When 2000 cm^-1 〈 △E（T-^5D4） 〈 3000 cm^-1, the luminescent intensity of the Tb^3＋ complex is stronger. When 3000 cm^-1〈 △E （T-^5D1）, the luminescent intensity of the Eu^3＋ complex is weak- er or close to nil. This means that the triplet energy level of the ligand is a chief factor that dominates RE^3＋ luminescence.

Synthesis, Characterization and Luminescence Properties of Rare Earth Complexes with Bis(Pyridinyl-Amide)