Fundamental Characterization,Photophysics and Photocatalysis of a Base Metal Iron(II)-Cobalt(III) Dyad |
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Authors: | Marina Huber-Gedert Dr. Michał Nowakowski Dr. Ahmet Kertmen Dr. Lukas Burkhardt Dr. Natalia Lindner Dr. Roland Schoch Dr. Regine Herbst-Irmer Dr. Adam Neuba Lennart Schmitz Tae-Kyu Choi Dr. Jacek Kubicki Prof. Dr. Wojciech Gawelda Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department Chemie, Universität Paderborn, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany;2. Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, Poznań, 61-614 Poland;3. Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany;4. European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany |
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Abstract: | A new base metal iron-cobalt dyad has been obtained by connection between a heteroleptic tetra-NHC iron(II) photosensitizer combining a 2,6-bis[3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene]pyridine with 2,6-bis(3-methyl-imidazol-2-ylidene)-4,4′-bipyridine ligand, and a cobaloxime catalyst. This novel iron(II)-cobalt(III) assembly has been extensively characterized by ground- and excited-state methods like X-ray crystallography, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, (spectro-)electrochemistry, and steady-state and time-resolved optical absorption spectroscopy, with a particular focus on the stability of the molecular assembly in solution and determination of the excited-state landscape. NMR and UV/Vis spectroscopy reveal dissociation of the dyad in acetonitrile at concentrations below 1 mM and high photostability. Transient absorption spectroscopy after excitation into the metal-to-ligand charge transfer absorption band suggests a relaxation cascade originating from hot singlet and triplet MLCT states, leading to the population of the 3MLCT state that exhibits the longest lifetime. Finally, decay into the ground state involves a 3MC state. Attachment of cobaloxime to the iron photosensitizer increases the 3MLCT lifetime at the iron centre. Together with the directing effect of the linker, this potentially makes the dyad more active in photocatalytic proton reduction experiments than the analogous two-component system, consisting of the iron photosensitizer and Co(dmgH)2(py)Cl. This work thus sheds new light on the functionality of base metal dyads, which are important for more efficient and sustainable future proton reduction systems. |
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Keywords: | base metal complexes dyads photocatalysis proton reduction time-resolved spectroscopy |
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