Woodall, Christopher H., Fuertes, Sara, Beavers, Christine M., Hatcher, Lauren E. ![]() ![]() |
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Abstract
A systematic investigation into the relationship between the solid‐state luminescence and the intermolecular Au⋅⋅⋅Au interactions in a series of pyrazolate‐based gold(I) trimers; tris(μ2‐pyrazolato‐N,N′)‐tri‐gold(I) (1), tris(μ2‐3,4,5‐ trimethylpyrazolato‐N,N′)‐tri‐gold(I) (2), tris(μ2‐3‐methyl‐5‐phenylpyrazolato‐N,N′)‐tri‐gold(I) (3) and tris(μ2‐3,5‐diphenylpyrazolato‐N,N′)‐tri‐gold(I) (4) has been carried out using variable temperature and high pressure X‐ray crystallography, solid‐state emission spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and computational techniques. Single‐crystal X‐ray studies show that there is a significant reduction in the intertrimer Au⋅⋅⋅Au distances both with decreasing temperature and increasing pressure. In the four complexes, the reduction in temperature from 293 to 100 K is accompanied by a reduction in the shortest intermolecular Au⋅⋅⋅Au contacts of between 0.04 and 0.08 Å. The solid‐state luminescent emission spectra of 1 and 2 display a red shift with decreasing temperature or increasing pressure. Compound 3 does not emit under ambient conditions but displays increasingly red‐shifted luminescence upon cooling or compression. Compound 4 remains emissionless, consistent with the absence of intermolecular Au⋅⋅⋅Au interactions. The largest pressure induced shift in emission is observed in 2 with a red shift of approximately 630 cm−1 per GPa between ambient and 3.80 GPa. The shifts in all the complexes can be correlated with changes in Au⋅⋅⋅Au distance observed by diffraction.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Chemistry |
Publisher: | Wiley |
ISSN: | 0947-6539 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 18 March 2020 |
Date of Acceptance: | 21 October 2014 |
Last Modified: | 05 May 2023 08:07 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/130481 |
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