Emission energy correlates with inverse of gold-gold distance for various [Au(SCN)2]- salts

Nathan L Coker; Jeanette A Krause Bauer; R C Elder

doi:10.1021/ja037012f

Emission energy correlates with inverse of gold-gold distance for various [Au(SCN)2]- salts

J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Jan 14;126(1):12-3. doi: 10.1021/ja037012f.

Authors

Nathan L Coker¹, Jeanette A Krause Bauer, R C Elder

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0172, USA.

PMID: 14709035
DOI: 10.1021/ja037012f

Abstract

A series of bis(thiocyanato)gold(I) complexes with Au-Au interactions show luminescence in the range from 500 to 670 nm. The series of salts correlates emission energy with the reciprocal of the Au-Au distance. As the Au-Au distance increases, the emission energy decreases. The ligand system provides no framework for the Au-Au interaction. The emission energy seems totally determined by the Au-Au distance.