Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes with Peripheral N-Coordination Sites: A Foundation for Heterotrimetallic Nonlinear Optical Chromophores
作者:Benjamin J. Coe、Simon P. Foxon、Rachel A. Pilkington、Sergio Sánchez、Daniel Whittaker、Koen Clays、Nick Van Steerteghem、Bruce S. Brunschwig
DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00536
日期:2016.9.12
The compounds 4,4'-dicyano-2,2'-bipyridyl (dcbpy), 4,4'-bis(4-cyanophenyl)-2,2'-bipyridyl (bcpbpy), 4,4'-bisRE)-2-(4-cyanophenyl)viny1]-2,2'-bipyridyl (bcpvbpy), and 4,4'-bis[(E)-2-(4-pyridyl)vinyl]-2,2'-bipyridyl (bpvbpy) are used to prepare nine new complexes with facReI(CO)(3)(L)}(n+) (L = Cl-, pyridine (py), or 4-yanopyridine (cpy)) centers. The cationic complexes are isolated as their OTt- salts. These new monometallic species are studied together with the known fac-(ReCl)-Cl-I(CO)(3)(qpy) (qpy = 4,4':2',2 '':4 '',4'''-quaterpyridyl) (de Wolf, P.; et al. Inorg. Chim. Acta 2003, 355, 280-285). Coordination of Ru-II(NH3)(5)}(2+)centers to the peripheral N atoms, of fac-(ReCl)-Cl-I(CO)(3)(qpy) and fac-[Re-I(CO)(3)(bcpbpy)(py)(+) affords heterotrimetallic complexes that are isolated as their PF6- alts. Single-crystal X-ray structures are reported for the solvates fac-(ReCl)-Cl-I(CO)(3)(dcbpy)center dot Me2CO, fac-[(ReCl)-Cl-I(CO)(3)(dcbpy) (MeCN)]OTf center dot PhMe, fac-[(ReCl)-Cl-I(CO)(3)(dcbpy) OTf center dot(dcbpy)(cpy)]OTIO.SMe2CO, fac-(ReCl)-Cl-I(CO)(3)(bcpbpy)-0.513hMe, and fac-[(ReCl)-Cl-I(CO)(3)(bcpbpy)(MeCN)OTf MeCN. Cyclic voltammetry reveals irreversible Re-II/I processes in all cases, while the trimetallic compounds show a reversible two-electron Ru-III/(II) oxidation wave. Ligand-based reductions are generally irreversible, but reversible waves are observed for the dcbpy complexes. Electronic absorption spectra show strong d -> pi* metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) and intraligand pi -> pi* absorptions. The Ru-II-based MLCT bands have lower energies and higher intensities than the ReI-based ones. The monometallic species emit weakly in the red/NIR region (lambda(em) = 594-732 nm; phi = 0.6-8.1%) when excited at 350-520 nm. Molecular first hyperpolarizabilities beta for the trimetallic complex salts are measured in MeCN solutions via the hyper-Rayleigh scattering technique at 1064 nm. Stark (electroabsorption)_ spectroscopic studies on the low-energy MLCT bands in frozen PrCN allow the indirect, estimation of static first hyperpolarizabilities beta(0). The trimetallic complexes have relatively large beta(0) values, ca. 500 x 10(-30) esu or more, which are substantially greater than those of the monometallic species.