Chemistry Letters, Vol.33, No.8, 1060-1061, 2004
A new blue photoluminescent salen-like zinc complex with excellent emission quantum yield
A new salen-like compound, H2L, bearing a 12-carbon atom length aliphatic chain bridging iminic nitrogen atoms, was successfully synthesized and characterized. Interestingly, its zinc complex, ZnL, showed an extraordinary high fluorescent quantum yield value of 75%, originating from a metal-perturbed ligand-centered state.