Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Preparation and Characterization of Chromophores Pillared Zn-Al-LDH

LI Lei1, WEN Zheng1, CHEN Da-Zhou2, TANG Hua2   

  1. (1. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China; 2. National Research Center for Certified Reference Materials, Beijing 100013, China)
  • Received:2009-01-20 Revised:2009-04-22 Published:2009-09-20 Online:2009-09-20

Abstract: A pair of chromophores with donor-acceptor properties, coumarin-3-carboxylic acid (3-CCA) and 9-anthracene carboxylic acid (9-ACA), were intercalated into the layered double hydroxide (LDH), [Zn0.66Al0.34(OH)2](CO3) 0.17·0.33H2O by the method of ion-exchange procedures in ethylene glycol. The co-intercalation compounds with different molar ratios of donor to acceptor in the solid products were obtained by controlling ion-exchange time, temperature, and the molar ratio of donor to acceptor in the solution. The obtained co-intercalation compounds were characterized by X-ray diffraction, infrared and thermogravimetry techniques. The photochemical properties of the obtained compounds were studied by UV-Vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. These results indicate that the pair of chromophores, 3-CCA and 9-ACA within the interlayer region of the host can give rise to energy transfer processes because of the characteristics of their excited states.

Key words: hydrotalcites, co-intercalation, donor-acceptor, energy transfer

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