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Novel Pyridinium Inner Salt Dye and its Complexes: Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Photophysical Properties

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Two novel metal complexes, namely [Tb2(L)6(H2O)4]⋅(NO3)6⋅L2⋅(H2O)18 (1) and [Hg(L)Cl2]n (2), were obtained by the reaction of D-π-A (D = donor, π = conjugated spacer, A = acceptor) type pyridinium inner salt dye, trans-4-[(p-N,N-dimethylamino)styryl]-N-(2-propanoic-acid) pyridinium (L) with corresponding metal salts. Single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses reveal that compound 1 possesses dinuclear motif in which two Tb(III) ions are linked by four carboxylate groups while complex 2 exhibits 1D chain structure based on Hg(II) ions bridged by carboxylate groups. The linear and non-linear optical properties of complexes 1 and 2 have been studied. Both 1 and 2 exhibit intense single-photon excited fluorescence (SPEF) and two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) in the red range. Results show that the replacement of central ions from Hg2+ to Tb3+ influence the two-photon absorption cross-section significantly through increasing the density of the chromophore. However, the peak positions of two-photon excited fluorescence are only slightly affected. Compared with L molecule, complex 1 shows enhanced two-photon absorption cross-section and decreased fluorescent lifetime.

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This work was financially supported by Scientific Research Foundation of Anhui Provincial Education Department (KJ2014A228).

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    Yong-Hong Zhou, Na-Li Wang, Ti-Fang Miao & Juan-Gang Wang

  2. No. 1 High School of Huaibei, Huaibei, 235000, People’s Republic of China

    Zhe-Yu Wang

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Zhou, YH., Wang, NL., Miao, TF. et al. Novel Pyridinium Inner Salt Dye and its Complexes: Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Photophysical Properties. J Fluoresc 25, 473–479 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-015-1547-8

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