MLCT

The largest family of luminescent metal compounds comprises those complexes which emit from MLCT states. This emission is facilitated by the fact that generally MLCT excitation has only a small effect on the metal-ligand bonding and does not initiate competing unimolecular photoreactions. Intense luminescence can thus be observed under ambient conditions. The most prominent emitters include [Ru (bipy)3]2+ [41,81] and Re(o-phen)(CO)3Cl [4,75] and their derivatives. Any discussion of these complexes is omitted here since they are treated elsewhere in this book. 

Other organometallic compounds such as substituted hexacarbonyls [75], carbyne (e.g. W(CO)2(diphos)(CPh)Cl (A ax = 39 nm) [82], isocyanide (e.g. W(CNPh)g (Amax = 638 nm [83] and orthometalated complexes (e.g. Pt(thpy)2 with thpy = 2-(2-thienyl)pyridine anion, (A ax = 580 nm) [84-86] are further examples of luminescent MLCT states. 

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In this case the flucPiation-dissipation relation, ( A3.2.21T reduces to D = IcTa. It is also clear that GE = (A + S)/Mlct which is not self-adjoint. 

Figure C 1.2.9. Schematic representation of photo induced electron transfer events in fullerene based donor-acceptor arrays (i) from a TTF donor moiety to a singlet excited fullerene and (ii) from a mthenium excited MLCT state to the ground state fullerene.

For chromium alkoxycarbene complexes the MLCT and the lowest energy LF bands overlap. Irradiation at A>385 nm led to anti-syn isomerization... 

Fe(6-Mepy)2(py)tren] (004)2 Doped in PSS. Magnetic susceptibilities measured for a microcrystalline sample of the complex produce a magnetic moment value = 0.36 pg at 10 K and 0.61 pg at 150 K, followed by a gradual increase to Peff = 2.80 pe at 311 K [138]. Thus 26% of the complexes are in the HS state at 300 K if a magnetic moment of 5.1 Pe is assumed for the pure HS compound. On the other hand, the complex doped into a polystyrene sulfonate (PSS) film does not provide any evidence for a thermal population of the HS state up to 340 K as demonstrated by variable-temperature UV-VIS and Mossbauer spectra. In fact, all the complexes doped into the PSS film are in the LS state at temperatures below 340 K. However, if irradiated by a single pulse of a Q-switched Nd/YAG laser (532 mp), the complex is excited from the LS ground state to the HS J2 states via an intermediate MLCT state and the metal states. The subsequent back relaxation from the excited T2 state to the... 

A CT transition which is very similar to the -> MMCT transition has been observed by Vogler et al. [55] for complexes [M(2,2 -bipyridyl)X3] with X = Cl, Br, I and M = Sb, Bi. These authors report MLCT transitions involving the promotion of an electron from the lone pair to the n orbital of the bipyridyl ligand. For example, for M = Sb and X = Br they observe an orange color for the complex due to an absorption band with a maximum at 435 nm. In the complexes considered by us the transition is to an antibonding n orbital (with pronounced d character) on the filled-shell transition-metal complex ion. 

The term MMCT transition is in our opinion more suitable for classifieation than for characterizing its nature. The same is true for the seemingly more simple LMCT and MLCT transitions. To illustrate this we have tabulated in... 

Effects of spacer groups on the formation and properties of the mixed-valence states of conjugated ferrocene dimers have been extensively studied by both electrochemical and spectroscopic methods. It should be noted that a characteristic feature in the electronic spectra of ferrocene dimers with conjugated spacer groups is the appearance of metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) bands in the neutral form as well as IT bands in the mixed-valence state. The dimer Fc — CH=CH — Fc... 

Strong MLCT bands appear in the neutral form of azo-bridged ferrocene oligomers, as noted above. The absorption of the MLCT band at 534 nm diminishes, and a new band appears and increases at 672 nm with the oxidation to 25+. The new band can be assigned to a ligand-to-... 

Recently, a photoisomerization reaction of azoferrocene was found to proceed in polar solvents such as benzonitrile and DMSO through both a 7t it transition of the azo-group with a UV light (365 nm) and the MLCT transition with a green light (546 nm) (Fig. 6) (Scheme 1) (153). The quantum yields of the photo-isomerization reaction at 365 nm and 546 nm were estimated to be 0.002 and 0.03, respectively. The transformation into the cis form causes the higher field shift of Cp protons in the 1H-NMR spectrum and an appearance of u(N = N) at 1552 cm-1. The cis form is greatly stabilized in polar media, and dilution of the polar solution of cis-25 with less polar solvents resulted in a prompt recovery of the trans form. 

To substitute the strongly bound axial CO ligand of the ruthenium or osmium center, it is necessary to employ more drastic conditions than simple stirring at room temperature. Imamura (11,20) used photolysis to synthesize porphyrin trimers on the basis of simultaneous coordination of two 4-pyridyl porphyrins to the same ruthenium porphyrin (12, Fig. 3). Some interesting photophysical behavior was observed for these systems. The trimers have an extra UV-Vis absorption band at about 450 nm which is ascribed to metal-ligand charge transfer (MLCT), a d7r(Ru(II))-7r (OEP) transition. This band shows a batho-chromic shift in more polar solvents, and decreased in intensity when... 

The electronic adsorption spectra for the complexes [Ir(OH)6]", where n = 0-2, have been resolved and peak maxima locations, molar extinction coefficients, oscillator strengths, and band half-widths calculated.44 Bands have been assigned in the main part to be one-electron MLCT transitions. Spectrophotometrically determined rate constants for the OH reduction of the IrVI and Irv complexes at 25 °C in 3M NaOH are (2.59 0.09) x 10—3 s—1 and (1.53 0.05) x 10 4 s 1 respectively. The activation energy for the reduction, Irv—>IrIV, is nAkcalmoC1. Cyclic voltammetry and potentiostatic coulometry of [Ir(OEI )r,]2 in 3M NaOH on a Pt electrode show that during the electro-oxidation compounds of Irv and IrVI are formed.45... 

The electronic absorption and MCD spectra of [Pt Bu )] can be explained in terms of 5d > 17ru MLCT transitions.75 76 The 5dz orbital is not strongly involved in the P — M a bonding. There is some M — P back bonding in these systems, but it does not add a lot to the stabilization. Thus, there is minimal 5d orbital involvement in the bonding and it mostly involves the 6,v and 6pz orbitals.75,76... 

A typical ligand capable of generating a dendritic structure is 1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene (HAT). Photophysical studies of trinuclear species based on HAT have been reported [14 a, 49]. Representative example of complexes of this type are 26, 27, and 28. For some of these complexes, the luminescence, originating from MLCT levels involving the central HAT ligand, was found to decay with multiexponential kinetics. Furthermore, the vibrational modes responsible for the nonradiative decay of the luminescent MLCT states are different in the polynuclear dendritic edifices with respect to the mononuclear [M(L)2(HAT)]2+ compounds [14a]. 

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