Schmid, Lucius and Kerzig, Christoph and Prescimone, Alessandro and Wenger, Oliver S.. (2021) Photostable Ruthenium(II) Isocyanoborato Luminophores and Their Use in Energy Transfer and Photoredox Catalysis. JACS Au, 1 (6). pp. 819-832.
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Abstract
Ruthenium(II) polypyridine complexes are among the most popular sensitizers in photocatalysis, but they face some severe limitations concerning accessible excited-state energies and photostability that could hamper future applications. In this study, the borylation of heteroleptic ruthenium(II) cyanide complexes with alpha-diimine ancillary ligands is identified as a useful concept to elevate the energies of photoactive metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) states and to obtain unusually photorobust compounds suitable for thermodynamically challenging energy transfer catalysis as well as oxidative and reductive photoredox catalysis. B(C6F5)(3) groups attached to the CN- ligands stabilize the metal-based t(2g)-like orbitals by similar to 0.8 eV, leading to high (MLCT)-M-3 energies (up to 2.50 eV) that are more typical for cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes. Through variation of their alpha-diimine ligands, nonradiative excited-state relaxation pathways involving higher-lying metal-centered states can be controlled, and their luminescence quantum yields and MLCT lifetimes can be optimized. These combined properties make the respective isocyanoborato complexes amenable to photochemical reactions for which common ruthenium(II)-based sensitizers are unsuited, due to a lack of sufficient triplet energy or excited-state redox power. Specifically, this includes photoisomerization reactions, sensitization of nickel-catalyzed cross-couplings, pinacol couplings, and oxidative decarboxylative C-C couplings. Our work is relevant in the greater context of tailoring photoactive coordination compounds to current challenges in synthetic photochemistry and solar energy conversion.
Faculties and Departments: | 05 Faculty of Science > Departement Chemie > Chemie > Anorganische Chemie (Wenger) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Wenger, Oliver and Schmid, Lucius and Kerzig, Christoph and Prescimone, Alessandro |
Item Type: | Article, refereed |
Article Subtype: | Research Article |
e-ISSN: | 2691-3704 |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2021 10:49 |
Deposited On: | 09 Aug 2021 10:49 |
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