Designing Tunable White-Light Emission from an Aurophilic Cu(I) /Au(I) Coordination Polymer with Thioether Ligands.

White-light emitters have attracted considerable attention due to their importance in current and future technologies. By incorporating molecular fragments that independently emit in the blue, green/yellow, and red visible regions, specifically Cu-NC, Au⋅⋅⋅Au interactions, and Cu-SR2 , respectively, into a single material, new white-light-emitting systems have been targeted. With this goal, three new Cu(I) /thioether-based coordination polymers containing bridging [Au(CN)2 ](-) units have been synthesized and structurally characterized, and their photoluminescence properties (at room and low temperatures) have been delineated. Using this approach, white-light emission (tunable from slightly yellow to slightly blue, depending on λex ) is generated from Cu(Me2 S)[Au(CN)2 ], a feature uncommon in such simple coordination compounds.