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Title: Crown ether-lanthanide complexes studied by CPL and Tl. 1. Solution stoichiometry of europium and terbium nitrate complexes of (2R,3R,11R,12R)-2,3,11,12-tetramethyl-18-crown-6

Journal Article · · Inorg. Chem.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ic00198a041· OSTI ID:5622429

As part of an extensive study of the use of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) and total luminescence (TL) in probing crown ether-lanthanide interactions in nonaqueous solvents, described here are the results of an anion-exchange experiment designed to elucidate the solution stoichiometry of a chiral crown ether-lanthanide nitrate complex in trifluoroethanol (TFE). Measurements of the CPL and TL spectra of 0.06 M TFE solutions of (2R,3R,11R,12R)-2,3,11,12-tetramethyl-18-crown-6 (I) and either europium(III) or terbium(III) perchlorate in a 1:1 crown ether:lanthanide ratio were made, during the course of a titration with 0.55 M tetraethylammonium nitrate. The TL spectra indicate a 2:1 interaction between the nitrate anions and the lanthanide cation, but it is the CPL spectra that clearly confirm that the NO/sub 3//sup -/ has replaced the ClO/sub 4//sup -/ and/or TFE in the first coordination sphere, leaving the (chiral) crown macrocycle still complexed.

Research Organization:
Duke Univ., Durham, NC
OSTI ID:
5622429
Journal Information:
Inorg. Chem.; (United States), Vol. 24:4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English