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Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Feb 14;50(13):1582-4. doi: 10.1039/c3cc48628a.

Outer-sphere anion recognition by a cyclen-based octadentate europium(III) complex: pH dependent recognition of ortho-phthalic acid.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Desigan Sannasy, Helder M Marques, Manuel A Fernandes, Alvaro S de Sousa

Affiliations

  1. Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, P. O. Wits, Johannesburg, 2050 South Africa. [email protected].

PMID: 24382418 DOI: 10.1039/c3cc48628a

Abstract

An octadentate cyclen-based europium complex with amidic and hydroxyalkyl pendent moieties exhibits pH dependent ligand denticity associated with anion recognition. Unusually high hydration numbers are determined for ortho-phthalate ternary outer-sphere complexes for which modulation of lanthanide-based luminescence is observed.

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