Tetra-ethyl-ammonium tetra-kis-(1,1,1,5,5,5-hexa-fluoro-acetyl-acetonato)terbate(III)

Rik Van Deun; Pascal Van Der Voort; Isabel Van Driessche; Kristof Van Hecke

doi:10.1107/S1600536811055437

Tetra-ethyl-ammonium tetra-kis-(1,1,1,5,5,5-hexa-fluoro-acetyl-acetonato)terbate(III)

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2012 Feb 1;68(Pt 2):m111-2. doi: 10.1107/S1600536811055437. Epub 2012 Jan 7.

Authors

Rik Van Deun¹, Pascal Van Der Voort, Isabel Van Driessche, Kristof Van Hecke

Affiliation

¹ Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S3, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.

Abstract

The title compound, (C(8)H(20)N)[Tb(C(5)HF(6)O(2))(4)], is a tetrakis β-diketonate complex of hexa-fluoro-acetyl-acetone with terbium(III), and tetra-ethyl-ammonium as the counter-ion. This compound shows typical green terbium(III) luminescence upon excitation at about 335 nm. The coordination geometry around the Tb(III) atom is a slightly distorted square anti-prism. One hexa-fluoro-acetyl-acetone ligand has a disordered CF(3) group [occupancies of 0.575 (4) and 0.425 (4)]. A three-dimensional network is built up by linkage of Tb(III) complexes via C-H⋯F inter-actions.