摘要:
Diethyl-2,2'-biquinoline-4,4'-dicarboxylate (debq) reacts with pentacarbonylbromorhenium in toluene to give fac-[Re(CO)(3)(debq)Br]; subsequent reaction with AgOTf in MeCN affords the cationic complex fac-[Re (CO)(3)(debq)(MeCN)]OTf. X-ray crystallographic data on fac-[Re(CO)(3)(debq)Br] show that the debq ligand is coordinated in a bidentate fashion at an angle of 32 degrees from the equatorial plane of the complex: DFT calculations confirm this as the lowest energy conformation.fac-[Re(CO)(3)(debq)Br] and fac-[Re(CO)(3)(debq) (MeCN)]OTf both possess (MLCT)-M-1 absorptions in the visible region, the former most red-shifted to ca. 465 nm. Both complexes demonstrated unusual luminescent properties: in solution, emission appears to be dominated by ligand-centred processes, whereas only (MLCT)-M-3 emission, tailing into the near-IR, was observed in the solid state at 671 (tau = 59 ns) and 711 nm (tau = 19 ns) for fac-[Re(CO)(3)(debq)(MeCN)]OTf and fac-[Re (CO)(3)(debq)Br], respectively. However, the debq ligand is not labile in these complexes, which are robust to competing ligands and coordinating solvents. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.