Five new bisphosphoramide-based
LnIII nitrate complexes [La2(NO3)6L3
I]
n
(1), [Ce2(NO3)6L3
I]
n
(2), [Sm2(NO3)6L3
II]
n
(3), Sm2(NO3)6L3
III (4), and Er(NO3)3L2
III (5) [L
I
= piperazine-1,4-diylbis(diphenyl phosphine oxide), L
II
= N,N′-(ethane-1,2-diyl)bis(N-methyl-P,P-diphenylphosphinic amide, and L
III
= N,N′-(ethane-1,2-diyl)bis(P,P-diphenylphosphinic amide)] have been
synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy,
thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and single crystal X-ray and powder
diffractions. The results of the X-ray diffraction analysis revealed
the new polymorph of L
III
, and
the structural diversity of the synthesized complexes in the solid
state. Complexes 1–3 display two-dimensional
coordination polymers (2D-CP), containing layers with honeycomb (6,
3) topology. In these 2D-CPs, each Ln center (La, Ce, and Sm in 1, 2, and 3, respectively) could
be considered as a triconnected node, linked by three bridging bisphosphoramide
ligands as two-connecting linkers. In contrast, 4 is
a discrete binuclear complex, in which bidentate L
III
ligand has two entirely different conformations:
the syn chelating and the anti bridging. Cationic complex 5 shows the monomeric structure, where bidentate L
III
adopts the syn-chelating conformation. A comprehensive
luminescence investigation has been performed on free ligands and
their corresponding complexes as well. The synthesized compounds display
a variety of luminescence behavior, including the ligand-centered
fluorescence in 1, 2, and 5, two distinct emission peaks in 1 and 2, characteristic Sm-centered f–f emission in 3 and 4, and excitation-dependent emission in L
III
, 1, and 2.
Furthermore, the time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT)
study was carried out on the reported compounds to understand the
nature of the emission peaks and the observed luminescence properties.
The solid-state emission quantum yields of lanthanide complexes were
also determined at different excitation wavelengths.