Synthesis, Photochromism and Switchable Photoluminescence of a Cd-based Metalloviologen Complex
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Synthesis, Photochromism and Switchable Photoluminescence of a Cd-based Metalloviologen Complex
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Key words:
- crystal structure
- / metalloviologen
- / photochromism
- / switchable photoluminescence
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1. INTRODUCTION
The development of fluorescent materials with modulated emission has recently met with increasing interest due to their potential applications in functional materials[1–3]. Especially, smart luminescent materials which exhibit luminescence on-off switching behaviour are extremely interesting because they can be used to store binary information[4] and prevent tampering or counterfeiting[5–7]. Many approaches utilizing exogenous additives have been focused on tuning fluorescence emission properties, such as thermal-responsive[8, 9], chemical-responsive[10, 11], mechanical-responsive[12, 13], and electrochromic-responsive[14, 15]. However, these stimuli-responsive luminescent materials are not only harmful to environment and humans but also inconvenient for suppliers and consumers without professional chemistry knowledge to handle the anticounter-feiting operation. In contrast, photoresponsive luminescent materials are promising candidates because light has its own advantage due to its noninvasiveness and easy and quick modulation. Moreover, photoswitchable materials can be reversibly interconverted between two discrete states with drastic different optical outputs[16, 17].
Recently, photochromic viologen-functionalized ligands are usually used as functional motif[18] to construct photo-switchable luminescent materials because they can switch the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) process through photo-induced electron transfer (PIET), and their absorption band of one of the states of the photochromic component has overlap with emission band, making the luminescence quench after the color change via UV light irradiation[19, 20]. We and other groups have found that metalloviologen is easy to assemble and could improve the structural rigidity and radical stability by coordination and intermolecular interactions[21, 22]. In this work, the reactions of a zwitterionic viologen analog, N-(4-sulfophenyl)-4, 4'-bipyridinium (PhSQ) with Cd(NO3) and trimesic acid in water at room temperature gave rise to a new metalloviologen complex {[Cd(PhSQ)(HTBC)(H2O)2]·1.25H2O}n (1), which showed photochromism and realized reversible luminescence modulation between bright and dark states.
2. EXPERIMENTAL
2.1 Materials and methods
PhSQ was synthesized according to the literature[23]. Other reagents were purchased commercially and used without further purification. A PLS-SXE300D High Power Xenon Light Source (1.77 W at a distance of 25 cm) was used to prepare colored samples for FT-IR, UV-Vis spectra, powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), photoluminescence, and electron spin resonance (ESR) studies, and the distances between samples and the Xe lamp were around 25 cm. Elemental analyses were performed on an Elementar Vario MICRO microanalyzer. FT-IR spectra were obtained on a Perkin-Elmer Spectrum One FT-IR spectrometer using KCl pellets in the range of 450~2300 cm–1. Mettler TOLECO simultaneous TGA/DSC apparatus was used to obtain the TGA curve under N2 atmosphere with a heating rate of 10 K/min. UV-Vis spectra were recorded in an absorbance mode using a PerkinElmer Lambda 950 UV/VIS/NIR spectrophotometer equipped with an integrating sphere, and BaSO4 plates were used as the reference. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) patterns were recorded on a Rigaku MiniFlex II diffractometer using CuKα radiation. The simulated PXRD pattern was produced by the Mercury Version 2020.1 software using the single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. Electron spin resonance spectra were recorded using a Bruker-BioSpin E500 ESR spectrometer under a 100 kHz magnetic field in the X band (with a microwave frequency of 9.85 GHz) at room temperature. In situ determination of photoluminescence was conducted on a double excitation monochromator Edinburgh FL920 fluorescence spectrometer equipped with a R928P PMT detector.
2.2 Synthesis of the title complex
Compound 1 was prepared by the hydrothermal reaction of Cd(NO3)2·4H2O (61.6 mg, 0.2 mmol), PhSQ·3H2O (37.0 mg, 0.1 mmol), trimesic acid (21.0 mg, 0.1 mmol), 5 mL H2O, and 5 drops of 1 M NaOH solution at 100 ℃ for 3 days. Upon cooling to room temperature, yellow prism crystals of 1 were obtained after filtration. Elemental Analysis (%) calcd.: C, 43.39; H, 3.25; N, 4.05. Found (%): C, 43.37; H, 3.27; N, 4.02.
2.3 X-ray structure determination
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction measurements were performed on a Rigaku FRX diffractometer equipped with a graphite-monochromated MoKα radiation (λ = 0.71073 Å) with an ω-scan mode. The intensity data were corrected for Lp effects, and empirical absorption corrections were applied using the multi-scan method in the CrysAlisPro software[24]. All structures were solved by direct methods and refined through a full-matrix least-square technique on F2 using the Siemens SHELXTL package[25]. Hydrogen atoms of the frameworks were added geometrically and refined using the riding model. All non-hydrogen atoms were refined anisotropically. Crystal data for 1 (Mr = 691.41 g/mol): monoclinic system, space group C2/c, a = 19.0913(5), b = 10.0190(3), c = 27.6160(8) Å, β = 98.597(3)°, V = 5222.9(3) Å3, Z = 8, T = 301(2) K, μ(MoKα) = 0.988 mm‒1, Dc = 1.759 g/cm3, 12203 reflections measured (2.15°≤2θ≤29.41°), 5025 unique (Rint = 0.0276, Rsigma = 0.0396) which were used in all calculations. The final R = 0.0278 (I > 2σ(I)) and wR = 0.0753 (all data). The selected bond lengths and bond angles for 1 are given in Table 1.
Table 1
Bond Dist. Bond Dist. Bond Dist. Cd(1)–O(7)#1 2.3348(12) Cd(1)–O(6)#1 2.4678(12) Cd(1)–N(1) 2.2992(14) Cd(1)–O(9) 2.2632(11) Cd(1)–O(4W) 2.3365(13) Cd(1)–O(8) 2.5983(12) Cd(1)–N(1) 2.2992(14) Angle (°) Angle (°) Angle (°) O(7)#1–Cd(1)–O(8) 131.45(4) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(7)#1 78.44(4) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(7)#1 140.75(4) O(7)#1–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 54.18(4) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(8) 53.24(4) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(8) 87.79(4) O(7)#1–Cd(1)–O(4W) 89.67(5) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 132.59(4) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 86.61(4) O(6)#1–Cd(1)–O(8) 173.75(4) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(4W) 87.90(5) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(4W) 94.44(5) O(4W)–Cd(1)–O(8) 84.65(4) O(9)–Cd(1)–N(1) 140.63(4) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(3W) 82.69(5) O(4W)–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 93.03(5) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(3W) 90.61(5) O(3W)–Cd(1)–O(7)#1 96.27(5) O(3W)–Cd(1)–O(4W) 173.46(5) O(3W)–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 92.67(5) O(3W)–Cd(1)–O(8) 89.35(5) Symmetry transformation: #1: x, –1+y, z; #2: x, 1+y, z 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
3.1 Description of the crystal structure
Compound 1 crystallizes in space group C2/c. The asymmetric unit contains one Cd atom, two coordinated water molecules, one HTBC ligand, one PhSQ ligand and two lattice water molecules, one of which has the site occupancy of 0.25. The Cd atom is coordinated by two O atoms from two coordinated water molecules, four O atoms from different carboxyl groups of two HTBC2– ligands, and one N atom from the PhSQ ligand to form a distorted pentagonal bipyramid (Fig. 1a). Bond lengths of Cd–O vary from 2.2632(11) to 2.5983(12) Å, and that of Cd–N is 2.2992(14) Å. The Cd2+ ions are bridged by HTBC2– ligands to form a zigzag chain along the b axis, and each PhSQ ligand is suspended along the a axis on the same side of the chain by terminal coordination of N atom with the Cd2+ ion, forming a fence-like structure (Fig. 1b). Such chains are extended into a 2D layer supramolecular network in bc-plane through hydrogen bonding and π···π interactions (Fig. 1c). As shown in Fig. 1c, strong π···π interaction can be observed between the adjacent benzene rings of HTBC2– ligand (center-to-center distance: 3.675 Å) and between the adjacent pyridyl ring of PhSQ (center-to-center distance: 3.859 Å), as well as between the benzene ring of HTBC2– and pyridyl ring of PhSQ (center-to-center distance: 3.719 Å). In addition, all three oxygen atoms form C–H···O hydrogen bonding interaction with neighboring pyridine and benzene rings (Fig. 1d). Besides, the dihedral angle between the pyridyl rings is 20.953(65)°. These strong π···π and C–H···O interactions are beneficial for radical stabilization.
Figure 1
3.2 Photochromic property
TGA showed that 1 is stable in air below 40 ℃ (Fig. 2a). Then a weight loss of 8.2% from 40 to 190 ℃ with a sharp endothermic peak at 155 ℃ occurred, which was in accordance with the release of 3.25 water molecules (calcd. 8.5%). Complex 1 shows color change from yellow to green upon irradiation of a xenon lamp (Fig. 2b). FT-IR (Fig. 2c) analysis and PXRD (Fig. 2d) indicate no obvious structure change in 1 after irradiation, ruling out the possibility of photoinduced isomerization or photolysis. As shown in Fig. 2e, three new characteristic electron absorption bands around 420, 640 and 720 nm show up in the absorbance spectra after irradiation and tend to be saturated after irradiation for 40 min, but disappear again after fading 7 days. These bands are similar to those of viologen radicals[26], indicating the formation of PhSQ• free radicals via photoinduced electron transfer. ESR spectra further demonstrate the presence of the photo-generated radical. As shown in Fig. 2f, almost silent signals of the as-synthesized samples were found before irradiation. On the contrast, after irradiation, strong symmetric singlet signals emerged at g = 2.0040 for 1. These g values are very close to that of a free electron found at 2.0023 in viologen-based complexes[27]. Therefore, the mechanism of photochromic progress could be attributed to photoinduced electron transfer. This progress can be reversed by placing samples in the dark at room temperature.
Figure 2
3.3 Photoluminescent property
The photomodulated fluorescent property was investigated in solid-state under ambient atmosphere (Fig. 3a). 1 shows emission peak at 420 and 538 nm under excitation of 380 nm. Upon continuous irradiation by using a xenon lamp at room temperature, the emission intensity of 1 decreased gradually with the extension of the irradiation time. After irradiation of 110 minutes, the luminescent intensity at 538 nm decreases to 25% of the initial state, and a slight blue shift of maximum emission peak from 538 to 530 nm appears. The emission peaks of the initial samples of 1 show good overlaps with the photochromic absorption bands of their colored states, so the emission band around 538 nm is absorbed by the colored sample which possesses broad bands in the 400~800 nm range. The weakening of the fluorescence might be attributed to the intramolecular energy transfer from the excitation states to the colored state of the ligands under irradiation of the xenon lamp[28]. In order to understand the photoluminescent mechanism, the photomodulated fluorescent property of PhSQ was also investigated at room temperature. As shown in Fig. 3b, PhSQ shows emission peak at 420 nm with a shoulder peak at 538 nm under 380 nm excitation. The emission intensity of PhSQ showed similar gradual decrease upon continuous irradiation. Therefore, the photoluminescent mechanism of 1 may be assigned to π-π* transitions of the ligand. The enhanced intensity at 538 nm is perhaps attributed to the more rigidity of the ligand coordinated to Cd2+ ion that effectively reduces the loss of energy[29–31].
Figure 3
4. CONCLUSION
In summary, a novel Cd-based metalloviologen complex 1 was prepared and characterized by spectroscopy as well as by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. 1 contains a fence-like 1D chain, and such chains are extended into a 2D layer supramolecular network in bc-plane through hydrogen bonding and π…π interactions. Moreover, 1 exhibits reversible photochromic property and its photoluminescent intensity decreases gradually accompanied by photochromism. The tunable fluorescent emission of 1 makes it a potentially useful photoresponsive material.
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Table 1. Selected Bond Lengths (Å) and Bond Angles (°)
Bond Dist. Bond Dist. Bond Dist. Cd(1)–O(7)#1 2.3348(12) Cd(1)–O(6)#1 2.4678(12) Cd(1)–N(1) 2.2992(14) Cd(1)–O(9) 2.2632(11) Cd(1)–O(4W) 2.3365(13) Cd(1)–O(8) 2.5983(12) Cd(1)–N(1) 2.2992(14) Angle (°) Angle (°) Angle (°) O(7)#1–Cd(1)–O(8) 131.45(4) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(7)#1 78.44(4) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(7)#1 140.75(4) O(7)#1–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 54.18(4) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(8) 53.24(4) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(8) 87.79(4) O(7)#1–Cd(1)–O(4W) 89.67(5) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 132.59(4) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 86.61(4) O(6)#1–Cd(1)–O(8) 173.75(4) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(4W) 87.90(5) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(4W) 94.44(5) O(4W)–Cd(1)–O(8) 84.65(4) O(9)–Cd(1)–N(1) 140.63(4) N(1)–Cd(1)–O(3W) 82.69(5) O(4W)–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 93.03(5) O(9)–Cd(1)–O(3W) 90.61(5) O(3W)–Cd(1)–O(7)#1 96.27(5) O(3W)–Cd(1)–O(4W) 173.46(5) O(3W)–Cd(1)–O(6)#1 92.67(5) O(3W)–Cd(1)–O(8) 89.35(5) Symmetry transformation: #1: x, –1+y, z; #2: x, 1+y, z -
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