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A theoretical investigation into the photophysical properties of ruthenium polypyridine-type complexes
Authors:Charlot Marie-France  Pellegrin Yann  Quaranta Annamaria  Leibl Winfried  Aukauloo Ally
Institution:Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique, UMR 8613, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. mcharlot@icmo.u-psud.fr
Abstract:Excited states of ruthenium polypyridine-type complexes have always attracted the interest of chemists. We have recently found evidence of a remarkable long-lived excited state (30 micros) for a Ru(II) complex containing a heteroditopic ligand that can be viewed as a fused phenanthroline and salophen ligand.1 To unravel this intriguing electronic property, we have used density functional theory (DFT) calculations to understand the ground-state properties of (bpy)(2)Ru(LH(2))](2+), where LH(2) represents N,N'-bis(salicylidene)-(1,10-phenanthroline)diamine. Excited singlet and triplet states have been examined by the time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) formalism and the theoretical findings have been compared with those for the parent complex Ru(bpy)(3)](2+). The outstanding result is the presence of excited states lower in energy than the metal-to-ligand charge-transfer states, originating from intraligand charge transfer (ILCT) from the phenolic rings to the phenanthroline part of the coordinated LH(2). The spin density distribution for the lowest triplet state provides evidence that it is in fact the lowest triplet state of the free ligand. Correlation between the energy level diagram of orbitals for the ground state and that for the (3)ILCT state clearly establishes that the ruthenium retains its formal Ru(II) oxidation state. The quenching of the luminescence and the evidence of the long-lived excited state observed for (bpy)(2)Ru(LH(2))](2+) are discussed in the light of the computational results.
Keywords:density functional calculations  electronic properties  excited states  photophysical processes  ruthenium
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