“…Compared to the pmtcLi ligand, the emission bands of 1 – 4 , 6 , and 9 – 11 are 6, 10, 22, 0, 12, 6, 43, and 29 nm blue-shifted, respectively, while the emission bands of 5 are 11 nm red-shifted. The luminescence of 1 – 6 and 9 – 11 should be assigned to the intraligand π → π* and/or n → π* transitions, whereas the less than 50 nm wavelength shifts are probably caused by the coordination effect. − For 1 , 5 , 6 , and 9 , the effective enhancement of emission bands should be due to the formation of various noncovalent interactions, which effectively increases the rigidity of organics and reduces the nonradiative decay of the intraligand excited state. However, SCN – or SO 4 2– in 2 , 3 , and 4 have a negative effect on the fluorescence intensity, which results in the significant weaken of emission bands. − ,− Furthermore, there are stacking interactions in 3 / 4 with the center-to-center separations of 3.456/3.773 Å, respectively, which has also the negative effect on the fluorescence intensity.…”