Wang W, Guo H, Jones RA. Synthesis and electropolymerization of N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of Pd(ii) and Pt(ii) from an emissive imidazolium salt with a terthiophene backbone.
Dalton Trans 2019;
48:14440-14449. [PMID:
31524212 DOI:
10.1039/c9dt03363g]
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Abstract
The synthesis of an emissive terthiophene-based imidazolium iodide: 1,3-dimethyl-4,6-di(thiophen-2-yl)-thienoimidazol-3-ium iodide (4), the corresponding N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) preligand, and Pd and Pt-NHC complexes (5a, 5b) are reported. A related Pd-NHC complex (8) with a mono-thiophene backbone has also been synthesized. The solid-state structures were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Compounds 4, 5a and 5b were characterized by absorption/emission spectroscopy and an emission-quench phenomenon of 5a was observed. The Pd complexes 5a and 8 were shown to catalyze Heck type C-C bond forming reactions. The compounds with terthiophene backbones (4, 5a, 5b) were electropolymerized onto indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass electrodes to yield thin films of conducting metallopolymers (CMPs) (P1-3). UV-vis-NIR spectroelectrochemistry data of P1-3 showed reversible color changes upon oxidation due to the generation of charge carrier species along the polythiophene backbones.
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