ISSN:
1573-4994
Keywords:
Luminescence
;
oxygen sensors
;
oxygen quenching
;
polymer support
;
ReL(CO)3Cl
;
ReL(CO)3CN
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract A new class of luminescent rhenium complexes has been tested as oxygen sensors based on luminescent quenching. ReL(CO)3Cl and ReL(CO)3CN (L = 2,2′-bipyridine or 1,10-phenanthroline and substituted analogues) have several features that seem to indicate suitability as oxygen sensors. These include simple synthesis, long excited-state lifetimes, and high luminescence quantum yields. Intensity and lifetime oxygen quenching measurements were used to study the complexes in various polymer supports including homopolymers of PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane), a methacryloxy containing PDMS (Gp-163), and trimethylsilylmethylmethacrylate (T3642), and copolymers containing Gp-163 and T3642. In contrast to previous studies utilizing [Ru(4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline)3]2+ as an oxygen sensor, quenching of the Re complexes proved much more sensitive to the polymer support. With suitable supports, the rhenium chloro complexes demonstrated significant quenching; but the cyano complexes, in spite of being robust in solution, exhibited severe photochemical instability in polymers. The potential of this class of complexes as oxygen sensors and as molecular probes as well as the ramifications in the design of new and different types of sensors is discussed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020560128916
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