Synthesis, structure, and luminescent properties of lanthanide coordination compounds with 3-methyl-4-formyl-1-phenylpyrazol-5-one

Abstract

An exchange reaction of the sodium salt of 3-methyl-1-phenyl-4-formylpyrazol-5-one (HL) with chlorides or nitrates of lanthanides (Ln = La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, and Yb) was used to synthesize coordination compounds of composition LnL3·nSolv (Solv = H2O or EtOH). According to powder X-ray diffraction data, these compounds constitute two series: one comprises lanthanum and neodymium complexes, and the other, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, and ytterbium complexes. For the complexes of the first series, the structure was solved in a single-crystal diffraction experiment carried out on [La2(μ-L)3(L)3(H2O)3]·2MeOH. The lanthanum atoms in the complex are at a distance of 4.222(2) — from each other, and they are structurally nonequivalent and linked by three 5-hydroxy-4-formylpyrazole anions. Solid-phase samples of the coordination compounds under study feature weak luminescence in the spectral regions intrinsic to lanthanide cations.