Controlled Energy Transfer from a Ligand to an Eu^III Ion: A Unique Strategy To Obtain Bright-White-Light Emission and Its Versatile Applications

A new diphenylamine-functionalized ancillary-ligand-coordinated europium­(III) β-diketonate complex showed incomplete photoexcitation energy transfer from a ligand to a Eu^III ion. A solvatochromism study led to a balancing of the primary colors to obtain single-molecule white-light emission. Thermal-sensing analysis of the europium complex was executed. The europium complex, conjugated with a near-UV-light-emitting diode (395 nm), showed appropriate white-light-emission CIE color coordinates (<i>x</i> = 0.34 and <i>y</i> = 0.33) with a 5152 K correlated color temperature