“…Additionally, non-radiative deactivation by co-coordinated, high frequency oscillators like H 2 O must be suppressed for high efficiency, which can be accomplished by the employment of ancillary ligands to avoid H 2 O-coordination. Dibenzylsulfoxide, triphenylphosphinoxide (TPPO), trioctylphosphinoxide (TOPO) or bidentate phenanthroline and bipyridine are well known examples ( Malta et al, 1998 ; e Silva et al, 2000 ; Teotonio et al, 2008 ), whereby the bypyridine co-ligands are less efficient in the Eu-diketonates under discussion ( Faustino et al, 2005 ; Thejo Kalyani et al, 2019 ). For Eu 3+ , which is in focus here, β-diketones are among the most investigated and attractive ligands, especially with fluoro-substituted alkyl groups and aromatic substituents ( Binnemans, 2005 ; Brito et al, 2009 ; Wang, 2010 ).…”