摘要:
Photoinduced electron-transfer reactions of [(tpy)Ru-II(tpy-tpy)Co-III(tpy)]5+ (tpy = 2,2':6',2"-terpyridine and tpy-tpy = 6',6"-bis(2-pyridyl)-2,2':4',4":2",2"'-quarterpyridyne), [(tpy)Ru-II(tpy-ph-tpy)Co-III(tpy)](5+) (tpy-ph-tpy = 1,4-bis[2,2':6',2"-terpyridine-4'-yl]benzene), and [(bpy)(2)Ru-II(tpphz)Co-III(bpy)(2)](5+) (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, and tpphz = tetrapyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c:3",2"-h::2"',3"'-j]phenazine) were studied in the range 140-298 K by means of subpicosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. (MLCT)-M-3(Ru) of [(tpy)Ru-II(L-L)Co-III(tpy)](5+) (L-L: tpy-tpy and tpy-ph-tpy) underwent intramolecular electron-transfer (EET) reaction to form [Ru-2(III)(tpy)(L-L)Co-2(II)(tpy)](5+) in a shorter time than 10 ps. Low quantum yields of the EET products (0.53 for tpy-tpy and 0.41 for tpy-ph-tpy in butyronitrile at 298 K) measured before the fast return electron-transfer were found as in the intermolecular electron-transfer quenching of (MLCT)-M-3(Ru) by [Co(tpy)(2)](3+). The quantum yield of [(tpy)-Ru-II(tpy-tpy)Co-II(tpy)](5+) (Phi) decreases to 0.38 in a slowly reorganizing solvent of propylene carbonate and that of [(tpy)Ru-II(tpy-ph-tpy)Co-III(tpy)](5+) to 0.21 at 180 K. The reductions in the EET yields, 1 - Phi, can be ascribed to a fast transition of the nonrelaxed EET product to the lowest triplet d-d* state of [Co-III(tpy)(2)] moiety during the solvent reorganization. A tunneling transition of the nonrelaxed EET products to the lowest lying d-d excited-state of [Co-III(tpy)(2)] moiety takes place as a hole transfer, HT, from the dpi-orbital of Ru(III) to that of Co(II) with a configuration of dpi(6)dsigma*. An electronic coupling of dpi(Ru)-dpi(Co) estimated from the intensity of inter-valence transition of [(tpy)Ru-III(L-L)Ru-II(tpy)](5+) (Collin, J.-P.; Laine, P.; Launay, J.-P.; Sauvage, J.-P.; Sour, A. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1993, 434) is large enough to carry out the HT. The weak coupling of dpi(Ru)-dpi(Co) in the case of [(bpy)(2)Ru(tpphz)Co(bpy)(2)](5+) attenuates the HT rate to bring about a high yield of EET (0.8). The possibility that energy-transfer of (MLCT)-M-3(Ru) to the Co(III) moiety via an intermediate super-exchange coupling between dpi(Ru) and dpi(Co) occurs in competition with the EET of [(tpy)Ru-III(tpy-ph-tpy)Co-II(tpy)](5+) is also pursued.