A stable and strongly luminescent dinuclear Cu(I) helical complex prepared from 2-diphenylphosphino-6-methylpyridine

Juan-José Cid; John Mohanraj; Meera Mohankumar; Michel Holler; Gianluca Accorsi; Lydia Brelot; Iwona Nierengarten; Omar Moudam; Adrien Kaeser; Béatrice Delavaux-Nicot; Nicola Armaroli; Jean-François Nierengarten

doi:10.1039/c2cc37873f

A stable and strongly luminescent dinuclear Cu(I) helical complex prepared from 2-diphenylphosphino-6-methylpyridine

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Jan 30;49(9):859-61. doi: 10.1039/c2cc37873f.

Authors

Juan-José Cid¹, John Mohanraj, Meera Mohankumar, Michel Holler, Gianluca Accorsi, Lydia Brelot, Iwona Nierengarten, Omar Moudam, Adrien Kaeser, Béatrice Delavaux-Nicot, Nicola Armaroli, Jean-François Nierengarten

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Moléculaires, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS (UMR 7509), 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.

PMID: 23228979
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc37873f

Abstract

Treatment of 2-diphenylphosphino-6-methylpyridine (dpPyMe) with Cu(CH(3)CN)(4)BF(4) afforded the stable dinuclear Cu(I) complex [Cu(2)(μ-dpPyMe)(3)(CH(3)CN)](BF(4))(2). This compound is a weak emitter in solution, however a remarkably high emission quantum yield (46%) has been found in a rigid matrix at room temperature.