Rebarz M, Marcélis L, Menand M, Cornut D, Moucheron C, Jabin I, Kirsch-De Mesmaeker A. Revisited photophysics and photochemistry of a Ru-TAP complex using chloride ions and a calix[6]crypturea.
Inorg Chem 2014;
53:2635-44. [PMID:
24533637 DOI:
10.1021/ic403024z]
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Abstract
The effects of the nonprotonated and protonated calix[6]crypturea 1/1(•)H(+) on the PF6(-) and Cl(-) salts of a luminescent Ru-TAP complex (TAP = 1,4,5,8-tetraazaphenanthrene) were investigated. Thus, the phototriggered basic properties of this complex were examined with 1(•)H(+) in acetonitrile (MeCN) and butyronitrile (BuCN). The Ru excited complex was shown to be able to extract a proton from the protonated calixarene, accompanied by a luminescence quenching in both solvents. However, in BuCN, the Cl(-) salt of the complex exhibited a surprising behavior in the presence of 1/1(•)H(+). Although an emission decrease was observed with the protonated calixarene, an emission increase was evidenced in the presence of nonprotonated 1. As the Cl(-) ions were shown to inhibit the luminescence of the complex in BuCN, this luminescence increase by nonprotonated 1 was attributed to the protection effect of 1 by encapsulation of the Cl(-) anions into the tris-urea binding site. The study of the luminescence lifetimes of the Ru-TAP complex in BuCN as a function of temperature for the PF6(-) and Cl(-) salts in the absence and presence of 1 led to the following conclusions. In BuCN, in contrast to MeCN, in addition to ion pairing, because of the poor solvation of the ions, the luminescent metal-to-ligand charge transfer ((3)MLCT) state could reach two metal-centered ((3)MC) states, one of which is in equilibrium with the (3)MLCT state during the emission lifetime. The reaction of Cl(-) with this latter (3)MC state would be responsible for the luminescence quenching, in agreement with the formation of photosubstitution products.
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