Mz. Wang et al., CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE AND LUMINESCENCE OF EU(DBM)(3)TPPO COMPLEX, Science in China. Series B, Chemistry, life sciences & earth sciences, 37(4), 1994, pp. 410-417
The crystal structure of tris (dibenzoylmethanato) (triphenylphosphine
oxide)europium (III), C63H51O7PEu, has been determined by single crys
tal X-ray diffraction. The complex crystallizes in the triclinic space
group P (1) over bar with two molecules in a unit cell. The cell dime
nsions are a=12.336 (3), b=18.729 (5), c=11.502 (3) Angstrom, alpha=95
.86 (2), beta=103.14 (2), gamma=87.89 (2)degrees. The total number of
6969 independent reflections was used for the structure determination.
The final calculated R value is 0.055. The central europium ion is he
pta-coordinated by seven oxygen atoms. The polyhedron is a distorted c
apped trigonal prism with the Eu-O separation of 2.305-2.367 Angstrom.
The high resolution excitation and emission spectra measured at 77 K
indicate two Eu (III) sites in the complex. The symmetries of the Eu (
III) sites are C-2 nu and Cs respectively. The lower symmetrical C-s s
ite predominates. A comparison of the emission spectra for Gd(DBM)(3)T
PPO doped by 1% Eu(III) with those for Eu(DBM)(3)TPPO complex shows no
significant differences pointing to the same two sites.