Resumen de Synthesis of a photoluminescent and triboluminescent Copper(I) compound: an experiment for an advanced inorganic chemistry laboratory

Fabio Marchetti, Corrado Di Nicola, Riccardo Pettinari, Ivan Timokhin, Claudio Pettinari

• A simple synthesis is proposed from inexpensive reactants of a copper(I) derivative that exhibits strong photoluminescence and, in the crystalline form, exhibits strong triboluminescence. This laboratory provides an opportunity for introducing students to the phenomenon of triboluminescence.