Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique, UMR 6513 CNRS & FR CNRS 2465, Université de Nantes, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques de Nantes, BP 92208, Nantes Cedex 03, France.
Abstract:
By linking a naphthalenebisimide (NBI) unit to [Ru(bpy)3]2+ on the naphthyl core the rate of photoinduced Ru-to-NBI electron transfer was 1000-fold increased compared to the case with a conventional linking on the nitrogen.