Luminescence of pyrazolic 1,3-diketone Pr3+ complex with 1,10-phenanthroline

We studied luminescent properties of Pr3+ complex with pyrazole and 1, 10-phenanthroline ligand environment. It was demonstrated that the complex exhibits so-called “antenna” effect which involves the electronic excitation transfer from the ligands to the rare-earth ion. The observed complex structure of the luminescence spectrum specific to Pr3+ indicates that in the investigated compounds the luminescence originates from the rare-earth ion exclusively. The obtained data provided a means to identify the electronic transitions in the ion and to develop the corresponding energy diagram. Fluorescence lifetime imaging revealed uniform distribution of luminescence decay times for the Pr3+ complex crystalline phase. Consequently, the Pr3+ complex under study has one type of emission sites.