Lanthanide complexes containing organic ligand with conjugate group have been widely studied as those show characteristic luminescent properties, which are applied to biomedical, sensing and industrial fields.1 The luminescent properties originating from 4f-4f, 5d-4f and charge transfer transition of lanthanide ions can be controlled to construct artificially molecular design.2 However, the design and preparation of lanthanide complexes is more difficult than that of transition metal complexes because of high coordination number of lanthanide ions. Therefore, the coordination chemistry as well as luminescence of lanthanides has been another challenging research field to the synthetic scientists in recent decades. Pyridine carboxylates such as picolinate and nicotinate have been widely used to build lanthanide complexes because those molecules with nitrogen and oxygen atoms could efficiently transfer energy to lanthanide ion. [4][5] We are interested to make lanthanide complexes containing picolinate (pic) using α-pyridoin instead of picolinic acid, since the reaction with α-pyridoin is more clear and the yield is higher than using picolinic acid. We have already reported the preparation and crystal structures of europium and terbium picolinate complexes, Na[Ln(pic) 4 ]․ 2H2O (Ln = Eu(III), Tb(III)) using α-pyridoin.6 This work is a continuation of preparation and structural characterization studies of lanthanide complexes.Crystal structures of lanthanide picolinates have been reported as polymeric or mononuclearic structure. Most of them contained eight to nine coordinated metal with tris or tetrakis picolinates and water molecules, for example, [Ln(pic) ). We have successfully prepared new cerium(III) picolinate complex, 1, from the reaction of CeCl3․7H2O and α-pyridoin anion in methanol and characterized by X-ray crystallography, leading to a ten-coordinated cerium compound containing five picolinate ligands.
Experimental SectionSynthesis and crystal growth. The α-pyridoin (0.630 g, 3 mmol) was dissolved in 20 mL methanol and 3 mL of 1M NaOH aqueous solution was added into the solution with stirring to generate α-pyridoin anion. The solution color turned to yellow. Cerium chloride hepta hydrate (0.372 g, 1 mmol) was dissolved in 10 mL methanol and added into the α-pyridoin anionic solution. The reaction mixture was stirred for one hour and kept at room temperature overnight. Solids were filtered off and the filtrate was kept in refrigerator for three weeks. Crystals were filtered, washed by methanol and dried under vacuum. Yield was 82% and the product was thermally decomposed at 390 o C. The reaction is summarized in Scheme 1.Determination and refinement of the X-ray Structure. The data for X-ray structure determination was collected on a Bruker SMART APEX-II CCD diffractormeter equipped with graphite monochromated Mo Kα radiation (λ = 0.71073 Å) at 295 K. Structure was solved by applying the direct method using a SHELXS97 and refined by a full-matrix least-squares calculation on F 2 using SHELXL97. 14 All no...