Remarkable luminescence enhancement of chloroplatinum(II) complexes of hexaethylene glycol methyl ether substituted 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2'-yl)pyridine in water triggered by PF₆⁻

Jianjun Liang; Xiaorui Zheng; Lipeng He; Huanting Huang; Weifeng Bu

doi:10.1039/c4dt01243g

Remarkable luminescence enhancement of chloroplatinum(II) complexes of hexaethylene glycol methyl ether substituted 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2'-yl)pyridine in water triggered by PF₆⁻

Dalton Trans. 2014 Sep 21;43(35):13174-7. doi: 10.1039/c4dt01243g.

Authors

Jianjun Liang¹, Xiaorui Zheng, Lipeng He, Huanting Huang, Weifeng Bu

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, China. buwf@lzu.edu.cn.

PMID: 25060953
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt01243g

Abstract

Three chloroplatinum(II) complexes of 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2'-yl)pyridine bearing hexaethylene glycol methyl ether are almost nonemissive in dilute aqueous solutions. Upon addition of excessive hexafluorophosphate salts to their dilute aqueous solutions, one of them was found to show a remarkable luminescence enhancement.