Solid state gold-silver complexes

This complex, like the carbene precursor, is luminescent in solution and in the solid state. In acetonitrile solution, it displays an emission at 345 nm, which originates from an electronic state centered at 284 nm, which is attributed to an intraligand fluorescent process. In the solid state, the gold-silver complex emitts at 515 nm, and the ligand precursor, [H(py)2im]BF4, at 514 nm. Consequently, the remarkable similarity between the emissions of the ligand... 

The (compositionally) simplest mineral class comprises the native elements, that is, those elements, either metals or nonmetals that occur naturally in the native state, uncombined with others. Native gold, silver, and copper, for example, are metals that naturally occur in a ductile and malleable condition, while carbon - in the form of either graphite or diamond -and sulfur are examples of nonmetallic native elements. Next in compositional complexity are the binary minerals composed of two elements a metal or nonmetallic element combined with oxygen in the oxides, with a halogen - either fluorine, chlorine bromine, or iodine - in the halides, or sulfur, in the sulfides. The oxide minerals, for example, are solids that occur either in a somewhat hard, dense, and compact form in mineral ores and in rocks, or as relatively soft, unconsolidated sediments that melt at moderate to... 

A series of homoleptic copper(i), silver(i), and gold(i) complexes of two bisphosphine ligands l,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)benzene, dppb bis[2-(diphenylphosphino)phenyl]ether, POP has been studied to demonstrate that these species are very low emissive in solution but highly luminescent in the solid state. In particular, the silver and copper complexes afford quite broad electroluminescence spectra with white light emission when used in the fabrication of light-emitting devices. ... 

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