The lumine
scence of
trans-[TcO
2(L)
4]
+ (L = pyridine (py) or picoline (pic)) and
trans-[TcO
2(CN)
4]
3- at room and low temperature i
s de
scribed and repre
sent
s the fir
st example of room temperature excited-
state lumine
scence ob
served for Tc complexe
s. At room temperature, the complexe
s exhibited broad lumine
scence with emi
ssion maxima ranging from 745 to 780 nm. Analogou
s to the Re complexe
s (emi
ssion at 635-655 nm), the low-temperature emi
ssion
spectra of microcry
stalline
sample
s of [TcO
2(py)
4]BPh
4 and [TcO
2(pic)
4]BPh
4 di
splay the characteri
stic progre
ssion
s of the
symmetric O=Tc=O and Tc-L
stretching mode
s. DFT/TDDFT calculation
s were performed on the
trans-[MO
2(L)
4]
+ (M = Re, Tc) congener
s and predicted the dioxotechnetium emi
ssion to be 0.41 eV lower in energy than it
s Re analogue. Low-temperature lifetime
s (8 K) ranging from 15 to 1926
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s for the
serie
s of Tc complexe
s are con
si
stent with the Re analogue
s.