Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland).
Abstract:
A warm (blue) glow: A stable bis-cyclometalated iridium(III) allenylidene complex is prepared from a bis-cyclometalated iridium(III) complex. This strategy gives the first allenylidene complex that is phosphorescent at room temperature.