When Donors Turn into Acceptors: Ground and Excited State Properties of FeII Complexes with Amine-Substituted Tridentate Bisimidazole-2-ylidene Pyridine Ligands
- 6 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Inorganic Chemistry
- Vol. 59 (13), 8762-8774
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00393
Abstract
In search of new ligand motifs for photoactive iron(II) complexes with long-lived MLCT states, a series of six complexes with tridentate amine-functionalized bis-n-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-pyridine ligands is presented. In the homoleptic complexes imidazole-, methylimidazole-, or benzimidazole-2-ylidene, NHC donors are employed in combination with pyridine, functionalized in the 4-position by dimethylamine or dibenzylamine. The effects of these different functionalities on the electronic structure of the complexes are examined through detailed ground state characterization by NMR, single crystal Xray diffraction, as well as electrochemical and spectroscopic methods. The net influence of these different functionalities on orbital-orbital and electrostatic ligand-iron interactions is investigated thoroughly by density functional theory, and changes in the excited state behavior and lifetimes are finally examined by ultrafast optical spectroscopy. Great deviations of the initially expected effects by substitution in 4-position on the photochemical properties are observed, together with a significantly increased p-acceptor interaction strength in the benzimidazole-2-ylidene functionalized complexes.Funding Information
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (BA 4467/7-1, LO 714/11-1)
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