Effect of axial anthracene ligands on the luminescence of trinickel molecular wires
摘要:
Two nickel compounds having extended metal atom chains (EMACs) with the Ni-3(dpa)(4)L-2 core, where dpa is the anion of 2,2'-dipyridylamine and L represents an anthracene derivative, have been synthesized in good yield and excellent purity by reaction of Ni-3(dpa)(4)Cl-2 and the respective anthracene derivatives. For the compound Ni-3(dpa)(4)(AnCC)(2) (1) AnCC is the anion of 9-ethynylanthracene and for Ni-3(dpa)(4)(AnCOO)(2) (2) AnCOO is anthracene-9-carboxylate. The two compounds have been characterized by X-ray crystallography and other techniques. The cyclovoltammograms (CVs) of 1 and 2 display reversible redox processes at E-1/2 = 0.911 V and 1.020 V, respectively (vs. Ag/AgCl). The magnetic data suggest that the terminal Ni atoms are in a high spin state while the central Ni atom is diamagnetic, in agreement with other trinickel molecular wires. Although compound 1 is strongly luminescent, and represents the first such example in an EMAC, 2 does not display luminescence. The strong emission in 1 is related to donor-acceptor interactions between the Ni...Ni...Ni wire, the triply bonded C C linking unit, and the conjugated aromatic anthracene derivative, a process that is unavailable for 2 because the carboxylate group is almost perpendicular to the anthracene moiety. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.