화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.111, No.48, 12141-12145, 2007
Density functional theory investigation of novel Eu(III) complexes with asymmetric bis(phosphine) oxides
Recently, we have developed novel Eu(III) complexes with three beta-diketonates and one asymmetric his(phosphine) oxide whose light emission intensity is drastically increased. In this paper, one of these complexes is investigated by the density functional theory calculation. Sixteen isomers of this complex have been considered. The ratio of the existence for the most stable isomer (B1_1a) is found to be about 51 %, and the sum of the ratio of the existence for the six most stable isomers (B1_1a, B1_3a, B1_8a, B1_2a, B1_1b, and B1_5a) is about 100%, assuming the Boltzmann distribution (T = 300 K). The coordination structures of the six most stable isomers in the, ground states are similar, and we can expect asymmetric ligand fields for them, favorable for the efficient light emission. Vertical excitation energies and oscillator strengths for each isomer have been obtained by the time-dependent density functional theory. With the red-shift of the wavelength and the interpolation by Gaussian convolution, both the calculated absorption spectra for the most stable isomer B1_1a and the calculated absorption spectra for the ensemble average of the isomers are found to be similar to the experimental fluorescence excitation spectra. The efficiency of energy transfer from the triplet excited state to the Eu(III) ion is considered by calculating Delta E-ET (difference between the adiabatic excitation energy of the complex for the lowest triplet state and the emission energy of the Eu(III) ion for D-5(0) to F-7(2)). The characters for the lowest triplet states for the isomers are investigated by the spin density distributions of the triplet states.