Control of Lanthanide Coordination Environment: Synthesis, Structure, and Oxygen-Sensitive Luminescence Properties of an Eight-Coordinate Tb(III) Complex.

Coordination environment of the Tb(3+) ion in oxygen-sensitive luminescent complexes can be successfully controlled through the size of alkyl substituents on ligands {((RMe)ArOH)4cyclen} (R = tBu or Me; cyclen = 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane); a newly prepared eight-coordinate complex 1(tBu) shows higher oxygen sensitivity (KSV = 17 600) and lower luminescence quantum yield (Φ = 0.67 under N2) than those of the previously reported seven-coordinate analogues 1(Me) and [{((MeMe)ArO)3tacn}Tb(III)(THF)] (KSV = 12 600 and 8300, Φ = 0.91 and 0.91 under N2, respectively; tacn = 1,4,7-triazacyclononane; THF = tetrahydrofuran). The oxygen-sensitive mechanism is discussed on the basis of the photophysical properties of the corresponding Gd(III) complexes.

Luminescent Tb(iii) and Sm(iii) complexes with a 1,4,7-triazacyclononane-based tris-aryloxide ligand for high-performance oxygen sensors.

Taking advantage of the outstanding oxygen-sensitive luminescence properties of the previously synthesised Tb(iii) complex [{(MeMeArO)3tacn}LnIII(THF)] (1Tb, Ln = Tb), herein, we have prepared an oxygen sensor based on 1Tb embedded in polystyrene film (1Tb/PS) and found that 1Tb/PS shows the highest sensitivity (I0/I100 = 14.9) and the fastest response (response/recovery time = 1.9 s/2.9 s), among the lanthanide(iii)-based oxygen sensors with f-f emission. Moreover, we have prepared the lanthanide(iii)-based colorimetric luminescent oxygen sensor (1TbSm/PS) with green-yellow-red responses, by using 1Tb and a newly synthesised oxygen-insensitive Sm(iii) complex (1Sm, Ln = Sm; Φ = 0.010 and τ = 12.2 µs).

An oxygen-sensitive luminescent Dy(iii) complex.

This paper presents the first dysprosium(iii) complex, [{((MeMe)ArO)3tacn}Dy(III)(THF)] (1(Dy)), that shows oxygen-sensitive luminescence. The synthesis, structure and oxygen-sensitive luminescence properties of 1(Dy) are reported (Φ = 0.050 and τ = 17.7 µs under N2, Φ = 0.011 and τ = 4.1 µs under O2 and KSV = 305 M(-1) in THF; KSV = 0.0077%(-1) in polystyrene film). The oxygen sensitive mechanism of 1(Dy) is discussed based on the photophysical properties of the corresponding gadolinium(iii) complex, [{((MeMe)ArO)3tacn}Gd(III)(THF)].

A gadolinium(iii) complex that shows room-temperature phosphorescence in the crystalline state.

This paper presents a gadolinium(iii) complex that shows blue phosphorescence in the crystalline state at room temperature under air atmosphere; color of the crystals can be changed to pale-green from blue by doping of 1-naphthol.

A macrocyclic tetraamine bearing four phenol groups: a new class of heptadentate ligands to provide an oxygen-sensitive luminescent Tb(III) complex with an extendable phenol pendant arm.

This paper presents a 1,4,7,10-teraazacyclododecane-based tetrakis-phenol as a protonated ligand precursor and its oxygen-sensitive luminescent terbium(III) complex with an extendable phenol pendant arm (Φ = 0.91 under N2, Φ = 0.031 under air), in which the potentially N4O4-octadentate ligand unprecedentedly coordinates to the Tb(3+) ion in a N4O3-heptadentate fashion.