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Huss T, Dixon IM. Electronic Structure and Geometry of the Lowest 2LMCT State of Fe(III) Potential Fluorescent Emitters†. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:4284-4290. [PMID: 36852931 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c04407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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Metal complexes with a 3d6 electron count are emerging as an alternative to 4d6-based photosensitizers, emitters, or photoredox catalysts. In recent years, several Fe(II) potential emitters have been proposed, based on strongly donating ligand sets. Those tend to facilitate oxidation to their 3d5 species, whose photophysics is based on low-lying ligand-to-metal charge-transfer (LMCT) states. The geometry and electronic structure of 2LMCT states are unveiled in this work.
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- Tabea Huss
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, Universite de Toulouse, CNRS, Universite Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, Universite de Toulouse, CNRS, Universite Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse, France
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Sinha N, Wenger OS. Photoactive Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States in 3d 6 Complexes with Cr 0, Mn I, Fe II, and Co III. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:4903-4920. [PMID: 36808978 PMCID: PMC9999427 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c13432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Many coordination complexes and organometallic compounds with the 4d6 and 5d6 valence electron configurations have outstanding photophysical and photochemical properties, which stem from metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) excited states. This substance class makes extensive use of the most precious and least abundant metal elements, and consequently there has been a long-standing interest in first-row transition metal compounds with photoactive MLCT states. Semiprecious copper(I) with its completely filled 3d subshell is a relatively straightforward and well explored case, but in 3d6 complexes the partially filled d-orbitals lead to energetically low-lying metal-centered (MC) states that can cause undesirably fast MLCT excited state deactivation. Herein, we discuss recent advances made with isoelectronic Cr0, MnI, FeII, and CoIII compounds, for which long-lived MLCT states have become accessible over the past five years. Furthermore, we discuss possible future developments in the search for new first-row transition metal complexes with partially filled 3d subshells and photoactive MLCT states for next-generation applications in photophysics and photochemistry.
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- Narayan Sinha
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Curtin GM, Jakubikova E. Extended π-Conjugated Ligands Tune Excited-State Energies of Iron(II) Polypyridine Dyes. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:18850-18860. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Gregory M. Curtin
- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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Magra K, Francés‐Monerris A, Cebrián C, Monari A, Haacke S, Gros PC. Bidentate Pyridyl‐NHC Ligands: Synthesis, Ground and Excited State Properties of Their Iron(II) Complexes and the Role of the fac/mer Isomerism. Eur J Inorg Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202100818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Kévin Magra
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, L2CM 57000 Metz France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LPCT 54000 Nancy France
- Université de de Paris and CNRS, Itodys 75006 Paris France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPCMS 67000 Strasbourg France
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Liu C, Batista ER, Aguirre NF, Yang P, Cawkwell MJ, Jakubikova E. SCC-DFTB Parameters for Fe-C Interactions. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:9674-9682. [PMID: 33164521 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c08202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We present an optimized density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) parameterization for iron-based complexes based on the popular trans3d set of parameters. The transferability of the original and optimized parameterizations is assessed using a set of 50 iron complexes, which include carbonyl, cyanide, polypyridine, and cyclometalated ligands. DFTB-optimized structures predicted using the trans3d parameters show a good agreement with both experimental crystal geometries and density functional theory (DFT)-optimized structures for Fe-N bond lengths. Conversely, Fe-C bond lengths are systematically overestimated. We improve the accuracy of Fe-C interactions by truncating the Fe-O repulsive potential and reparameterizing the Fe-C repulsive potential using a training set of six isolated iron complexes. The new trans3d*-LANLFeC parameter set can produce accurate Fe-C bond lengths in both geometry optimizations and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, without significantly affecting the accuracy of Fe-N bond lengths. Moreover, the potential energy curves of Fe-C interactions are considerably improved. This improved parameterization may open the door to accurate MD simulations at the DFTB level of theory for large systems containing iron complexes, such as sensitizer-semiconductor assemblies in dye-sensitized solar cells, that are not easily accessible with DFT approaches because of the large number of atoms.
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- Chang Liu
- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, United States.,Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, United States
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Vukadinovic Y, Burkhardt L, Päpcke A, Miletic A, Fritsch L, Altenburger B, Schoch R, Neuba A, Lochbrunner S, Bauer M. When Donors Turn into Acceptors: Ground and Excited State Properties of FeII Complexes with Amine-Substituted Tridentate Bis-imidazole-2-ylidene Pyridine Ligands. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:8762-8774. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Yannik Vukadinovic
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Sustainable Systems Design (CSSD), Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Sustainable Systems Design (CSSD), Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Institute for Physics and Department of Life, Light and Matter, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Sustainable Systems Design (CSSD), Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Sustainable Systems Design (CSSD), Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Institute for Physics and Department of Life, Light and Matter, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Sustainable Systems Design (CSSD), Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Sustainable Systems Design (CSSD), Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Institute for Physics and Department of Life, Light and Matter, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Sustainable Systems Design (CSSD), Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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Estrada-Montaño AS, Gries A, Oviedo-Fortino JA, Torres-Gutierrez C, Grain-Hayton A, Marcial-Hernández R, Shen L, Ryabov AD, Gaiddon C, Le Lagadec R. Dibromine Promoted Transmetalation of an Organomercurial by Fe(CO)5: Synthesis, Properties, and Cytotoxicity of Bis(2-C6H4-2′-py-κC,N)dicarbonyliron(II). Organometallics 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Aldo S. Estrada-Montaño
- Instituto de Quı́mica UNAM, Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Strasbourg Université, Inserm UMR_S U1113, IRFAC, 3 Avenue Molière, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- Instituto de Quı́mica UNAM, Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Instituto de Quı́mica UNAM, Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Instituto de Quı́mica UNAM, Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- University of Cambridge, CB2 3EJ Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Strasbourg Université, Inserm UMR_S U1113, IRFAC, 3 Avenue Molière, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- Instituto de Quı́mica UNAM, Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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Abstract
The use of iron in photoactive metal complexes has been investigated for decades. In this respect, the charge transfer (CT) states are of particular interest, since they are usually responsible for the photofunctionality of such compounds. However, only recently breakthroughs have been made in extending CT excited state lifetimes that are notoriously short-lived in classical polypyridine iron coordination compounds. This success is in large parts owed to the use of strongly σ-donating N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands that help manipulating the photophysical and photochemical properties of iron complexes. In this review we aim to map out the basic design principles for the generation of photofunctional iron NHC complexes, summarize the progress made so far and recapitulate on the synthetic methods used. Further, we want to highlight the challenges still existing and give inspiration for future generations of photoactive iron complexes.
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Predicting the electrochemical behavior of Fe(II) complexes from ligand orbital energies. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.01.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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