Intramolecular charge transfer in pyridinium-substituted Ru-polypyridine complexes
作者:Yibing Shen、Keith A Walters、Khalil Abboud、Kirk S Schanze
DOI:10.1016/s0020-1693(99)00570-8
日期:2000.4
A comparative photophysical study has been carried out on the complexes (bpy)(2)Ru(MQ(+))(2)(4+) and (bpy)(2)Ru(bpy-py-Me+)3(+) (1 and 2, respectively, where bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, MQ(+) is N-methyl-4,4'-bipyridinium and bpy-py-Me+ is 4-(N-methyl-4-pyridyl)-2,2'-bipyridine). In addition, the X-ray crystal structure of 2 is reported. As noted previously by Meyer and co-workers, complex 1 features strong photoluminescence from the Ru --> bpy metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) state at 80 K in an ethanol - methanol glass, but the emission is quenched at the solvent glass-to-fluid transition temperature due to intramolecular ligand-to-ligand charge transfer to produce the Ru --> MQ(+) MLCT state: [(bpy)(bpy(-.))Ru(III)(MQ(+))(2)](4 + *) --> [(bpy)(2)Ru(III)(MQ(.))(MQ(+))](4 + *). The existence of the Ru --> MQ(+) MLCT state is confirmed in the present study by laser flash photolysis of 1 at 160 K which provides evidence for the reduced monoquat ligand, MQ(.). The photophysics of the new complex 2 at temperatures ranging from 80 to 300 K is dominated by a the low-lying Ru --> bpy-py-Me+. MLCT state. Luminescence is observed from this state in an ethanol-methanol glass at 80 K as well as at temperatures above the solvent glass-to-fluid transition. The photoluminescence of 2 undergoes a large thermally-induced Stokes shift as the temperature is raised through the solvent glass-to-fluid transition region. The large Stokes shift is ascribed to solvent relaxation as well as relaxation with respect to a low-frequency inner sphere mode that consists of rotation around the C-C bond between the bpy and N-methylpyridinium rings in the bpy-py-Me+ acceptor ligand. Temperature dependent emission lifetime studies indicate that 2 features a dynamic anti-Stokes shift in the emission at T less than or equal to 110 K and a dynamic Stokes shift for T > 110 K. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.