Synthesis, structure and optical properties of new organic–inorganic haloplumbates complexes (C5H10N3)PbX4 (X=Br, Cl), (C2H2N4)PbBr3

Layered organic–inorganic composite materials (C5H10N3)PbX4 (X=Br 1, Cl 2) containing histaminium dications were grown via a solution-cooling process, and their structure and optical properties were determined. The organic ligand-histaminium introduced into the corner-sharing octahedra of the ‘PbX4-layer’ contains both primary ammonium and imidazolium different from the traditionally primary amine found in this system. As comparison, another analogous amine of 3-amino-1,2,4-triazol was used as ligand to coordinate with PbBr2 in acid solution. A novel complex (C2H2N4)PbBr3 (3) was obtained with zigzag PbBr2 chains different from the PbX4 layer in compound as 1 and 2. The hybrid (C5H10N3)PbX4 show exciton absorption at 339 nm for X=Cl and 419 nm for X=Br with the corresponding emission at 360 and 436 nm, respectively. The different PbBr2 chain structure of compound 3 does not show photoluminescence.