Síntese, caracterização e estudo das propriedades fotoluminescente de complexos de európio com ligantes 2-Acilindan-1,3-Dionatos e Heteroaromáticos

Abstract

This work shows the synthesis, characterization, and study of the photoluminescent properties of europium(III) complexes with ligands tris-(2-acilindan-1,3-dionatos) (ACIND = 2-acetylindan-1,3-dione; BIND = 2-benzoylindan-1,3-dione; and PROPIND = 2-propionylindan-1,3-dione) and auxiliary coordinating N heteroaromatic ligands (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine, and phen = 1,10-phenanthroline). The ligands were obtained by condensation reaction of the diethylphthalate ester with a ketone (yields  12%). The β-diketonates ligands showed a high purity, characterized by the following methods: determination of melting point, mass spectrometry and gas chromatography (GC-MS), absorption spectroscopy in the infrared (IR) and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance and 13C (1H and 13C NMR). The Eu-complexes were characterized by complexometric titration and infrared spectroscopy. Complexometric titration data were consistent with the general formulas [Eu(B)3(H2O)2], [Eu(B)3(H2O)(EtOH)] e [Eu(B)3(L-L)], where B is the 2-acylindan-1,3-diones and L-L is a coordinating N bidentate heteroaromatic ligand. The IR spectra give evidences that coordination of the β-diketonates and heteroaromatics ligands to the Eu3+ ions occur through the oxygen atoms of carbonyl groups and nitrogen atoms, respectively. Analysis of the unfolding transitions of 5D0→7FJ in the emission spectra of the europium complexes, can suggests that the Eu3+ ion is located in a chemical environment of low symmetry. The tris-diketonates complexes with auxiliary heteroaromatic ligands present higher values of quantum efficiency (η) when compared with their respective hydrated complexes. However, these values when compared to similar complexes with other auxiliary ligands (phosphinoxides) have significantly lower values of η, suggesting, in accordance with the other luminescence parameters, that the energy is dissipated by the retrotransfer mechanism from excited states of the Eu3+ ion to the 2-acylindan-1,3-dionates ligands.