Acta Chimica Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 79 ›› Issue (8): 1042-1048.DOI: 10.6023/A21040185 Previous Articles     Next Articles

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点手性调控的三股铕螺旋体的非对映选择性自组装及圆偏振发光

宋龙飞1,2, 周妍妍1,2, 高婷1,2, 闫鹏飞1,2,*(), 李洪峰1,2,*()   

  1. 黑龙江大学 化学化工与材料学院 功能无机材料化学教育部重点实验室 哈尔滨 150080
  • 投稿日期:2021-04-28 发布日期:2021-06-11
  • 通讯作者: 闫鹏飞, 李洪峰
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(51773054); 国家自然科学基金(51872077); 国家自然科学基金(52073080)

Point Chirality Regulated Diastereoselective Self-Assembly and Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Eu(III) Triple-Stranded Helicates

Longfei Song1,2, Yanyan Zhou1,2, Ting Gao1,2, Pengfei Yan1,2(), Hongfeng Li1,2()   

  1. Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education; School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
  • Received:2021-04-28 Published:2021-06-11
  • Contact: Pengfei Yan, Hongfeng Li
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(51773054); National Natural Science Foundation of China(51872077); National Natural Science Foundation of China(52073080)

The supramolecular chirality of lanthanide helicate offers a structural base to synthesize the excellent lanthanide circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials. However, the larger radii and the labile coordination geometries of the Ln(III) ions make it difficult to control the diastereoselectivity of lanthanide helicates in the self-assembly process. Herein, a pair of chiral dinuclear europium triple-stranded helicates [Eu2(LRR)3](OTf)6 and [Eu2(LSS)3](OTf)6 (LRR/SS=N,-(ethane-4,4ʹ-diyl)bis[6-(R/S)-(1-phenethylcarbamoyl)-pyridine-2-dimethylamide]) were synthesized via point chirality induced strategy. The ligands LRR/SS were composed of two chiral 2,6-dipicolinic amides as coordination units and ethylenediamine moieties as spacers. General procedure for the preparation of ligands LRR/SS and corresponding europium complexes [Eu2(LRR/SS)3](OTf)6: 6-(Methoxycarbonyl)picolinic acid 4a (1.50 g, 5.6 mmol) was dissolved in 5 mL SOCl2 and stirred for 6 h. The white precipitate was obtained after removed SOCl2, and then it was added to 30 mL CH2Cl2 containing 4-dimethylaminopyridine (0.12 g, 1.0 mmol) and triethylamine (0.48 g, 8.0 mmol). Ethylenediamine (0.12 g, 2.0 mmol) in 5 mL CH2Cl2 was added by dropwise to the above solution and further stirred for 10 h. After the solution was washed with 1 mol•L-1 HCl, saturated sodium bicarbonate and water, dried over sodium sulfate, and evaporated to remove solvent. The crude product was purified by crystallization from CH2Cl2:n-hexane (V/V=1:20) to give LRR/SS (0.54 g, 47%). LRR/SS (0.10 g, 0.18 mmol) dissolved in 10 mL acetonitrile, Eu(OTf)3 (0.07 g, 0.12 mmol) in 5 mL acetonitrile was added dropwise to the above solution and stirred for 24 h. After the slow volatilization of reaction solution, the white crystals were obtained, [Eu2(LRR/SS)3](OTf)6 (0.12 g, 71%). Combination of the comprehensive spectral characteristics and semiempirical geometry optimization demonstrated that the point chirality at the terminal of the ligand successfully controlled the Δ or Λ configuration around the metal center and the P or M helical conformation of the helicates. The mirror-image circular dichroism (CD) and CPL spectra further confirmed the formation of the enantiomer pairs. Notably, the helicates exhibit excellent CPL emission with the |glum| values reaching to 0.083 and the modest luminescence quantum yields (QYs=19%) in CH3CN. This study provides an effective strategy for the syntheses of chiral lanthanide CPL materials with excellent performance.

Key words: lanthanide complex, chiral helicate, chiral induction, circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)