A new series of europium adducts with the general formula Eu(CPDk3-CnH2n+1)3Phen, where CPDk3-CnH2n+1 denotes β-diketones and Phen is 1,10-phenanthroline, was synthesized. The obtained mesogenic complexes were heated to the temperatures of the isotropic liquid state and then cooled. The complexes having short CH3 and C2H5 substituents crystallized upon cooling, and the complexes with longer substituents from C3H7 to C6H13 underwent a glass transition with the formation of optically transparent amorphous films. Inside the series the complexes with C7H15 and C8H17 substituents exhibited a unusual smectic C mesomorphism for lanthanidomesogens. On the basis of quantum-chemical simulations and the results of small-angle X-ray scattering the dependence between the anisotropy of Eu(III) complexes with various ligand environments and their supramolecular organization was found. The synthesized Eu(III) complexes in the solid state show intense red photoluminescence upon irradiation by ultraviolet light (λmax - 337 nm).

A new series of neutral protomesogenic Eu III tris(diketonate) adducts with different Lewis bases have been synthesized. Only one of the complexes is liquid-crystalline and displays smectic A and nematic mesomorphism over a broad temperature range. Quantum-chemistry and small-angle X-ray scattering methods have permitted the evaluation of the influence of the structure of the Lewis base on the anisometry of [a] Physical and Colloid Eu(CPDk 3-Ph ) 3 Phen (1): Yield: 56 % (0.085 g). C 84 H

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An ab initio XMCQDPT2/CASSCF study of energy transfer processes in the dinuclear lanthanide complex [(Acac)3Eu(μ-Bpym)Tb(Acac)3] (Acac is acetylacetonate, and Bpym is 2,2'-bipyrimidine) and a corresponding computational procedure are presented. Because ligands in lanthanide complexes weakly interact with each other, the large dinuclear complex bearing seven organic ligands is divided into fragments that reproduce the electrostatic effects of the ions on the electronic and geometrical structure of the ligands. The multireference XMCQDPT2/CASSCF approach is directly applied to these relatively small fragments with reasonable computational cost. The calculated energies of the singlet and triplet excited states agree well with the experiment. Based on the calculated energies, the energy level diagrams of the complex are constructed and intramolecular energy transfer channels are determined.

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