Research Article

Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Structure and Photoluminescent Properties of New Mononuclear and Homodinuclear Europium(III) β-Diketonate Complexes

Table 3

Comparison of the unit cell parameters for PM6 and PM7 predicted structures. In parentheses, for the experimental values, standard deviation is shown; for theoretical values, percent error is indicated.

ComplexComplex 1 SC-XRDComplex 1 PM6 modelComplex 1 PM7 modelComplex 2 SC-XRDComplex 2 PM6 modelComplex 2 PM7 model

a (Å)13.246(5)13.231 (0.1%)13.289 (0.3%)10.2575(11)10.876 (6.0%)10.408 (1.5%)
b (Å)18.252(7)18.206 (0.3%)18.396 (0.8%)12.9224(15)12.648 (2.1%)12.722 (1.6%)
c (Å)21.081(8)21.472 (1.9%)20.458 (3.0%)15.0618(16)14.901 (1.1%)14.420 (4.3%)
α (°)98.241(8)99.330 (1.1%)97.670 (0.6%)72.179(6)69.860 (3.2%)72.220 (0.1%)
β (°)99.461(11)98.860 (0.6%)98.770 (0.7%)80.460(6)74.880 (6.9%)81.060 (0.8%)
γ (°)108.751(10)108.300 (0.4%)108.910 (0.2%)84.813(6)76.650 (9.6%)86.170 (1.6%)
Volume (Å3)4654.0(3)4728.6 (1.6%)4585.5 (1.5%)1872.7(4)1835.2 (2.0%)1795.7 (4.1%)