A comparative study of structural patterns and luminescent properties of silver-DAFO complexes with carborane- versus “classical”-diphosphanes

Abstract

New complexes with the DAFO (4,5-diazafluoren-9-one) ligand of stoichiometry [Ag(DAFO)(P–P)]OTf [P–P = dppe, 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphane)ethane; dppp, 1,3-bis(diphenylphosphane)propane; dppph, ortho-bis(diphenylphosphane)benzene; dppcc, 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphane)-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane; dipcc, 1,2-bis(diisopropylphosphane)-1,2-dicarba-nido-dodecaborane], [Ag(DAFO)(P–P*)] [P–P* = dppnc, 7,8-bis(diphenylphosphane)-7,8-dicarba-nido-undecaborate(-1); dipnc, 7,8-bis(diisopropylphosphane)-7,8-dicarba-closo-undecaborate(-1)] and [Ag(DAFO)(OTf)L] [L = PPh₃; dpccMe, 1-diphenylphosphane-2-methyl-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane] are reported. The structures of the complexes depend on the skeleton of the diphosphane. Most of these compounds are luminescent and their emissions seem to have originated from IL (DAFO) transitions, modified upon coordination to silver.