Room temperature molecular up conversion in solution
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2016-06-15Citation
Nonat, A., Chan, C., Liu, T. et al. Room temperature molecular up conversion in solution. Nat Commun 7, 11978 (2016) doi:10.1038/ncomms11978
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[Abstract] Up conversion is an Anti-Stokes luminescent process by which photons of low energy are piled up to generate light at a higher energy. Here we show that the addition of fluoride anions to a D2O solution of a macrocyclic erbium complex leads to the formation of a supramolecular [(ErL)2F]+ assembly in which fluoride is sandwiched between two complexes, held together by the synergistic interactions of the Er-F-Er bridging bond, four intercomplex hydrogen bonds and two aromatic stacking interactions. Room temperature excitation into the Er absorption bands at 980 nm of a solution of the complex in D2O results in the observation of up converted emission at 525, 550 and 650 nm attributed to Er centred transitions via a two-step excitation. The up conversion signal is dramatically increased upon formation of the [(ErL)2F]+ dimer in the presence of 0.5 equivalents of fluoride anions.
Keywords
Lanthanides
Erbium
Luminescence
Up conversion
Macrocycles
Erbium
Luminescence
Up conversion
Macrocycles
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Atribución 3.0 España
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2041-1723