Luminescence of antimony(III) halide complexes with aniline

The antimony(III) chloride and bromide complexes with aniline, (C₆H₅NH₃)₂SbCl₅·(C₆H₅NH₃)Cl·H₂O (I) and (C₆H₅NH₃)₂SbBr₅ (II), were synthesized, and their spectral luminescence properties were studied. An interesting peculiarity of I and II is the possibility of selective excitation of luminescence in the π system of the (C₆H₅NH₃)⁺ outer sphere anilinium cation and intrinsic luminescence of the s ² ion. The population scheme for the luminescent antimony ³ P ₁ level in I and II is discussed using the luminescence, UV, and photoelectron spectroscopy data. Original Russian Text ? T.V. Sedakova, A.G. Mirochnik, V.E. Karasev, 2009, published in Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii, 2009, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 380–382.