Strongly Red-Emissive Molecular Ruby [Cr(bpmp)] Surpasses [Ru(bpy)].

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2021
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Abstract
Gaining chemical control over the thermodynamics and kinetics of photoexcited states is paramount to an efficient and sustainable utilization of photoactive transition metal complexes in a plethora of technologies. In contrast to energies of charge transfer states described by spatially separated orbitals, the energies of spin-flip states cannot straightforwardly be predicted as Pauli repulsion and the nephelauxetic effect play key roles. Guided by multireference quantum chemical calculations, we report a novel highly luminescent spin-flip emitter with a quantum chemically predicted blue-shifted luminescence. The spin-flip emission band of the chromium complex [Cr(bpmp)] (bpmp = 2,6-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)pyridine) shifted to higher energy from ca. 780 nm observed for known highly emissive chromium(III) complexes to 709 nm. The photoluminescence quantum yields climb to 20%, and very long excited state lifetimes in the millisecond range are achieved at room temperature in acidic DO solution. Partial ligand deuteration increases the quantum yield to 25%. The high excited state energy of [Cr(bpmp)] and its facile reduction to [Cr(bpmp)] result in a high excited state redox potential. The ligand's methylene bridge acts as a Brønsted acid quenching the luminescence at high pH. Combined with a pH-insensitive chromium(III) emitter, ratiometric optical pH sensing is achieved with single wavelength excitation. The photophysical and ground state properties (quantum yield, lifetime, redox potential, and acid/base) of this spin-flip complex incorporating an earth-abundant metal surpass those of the classical precious metal [Ru(α-diimine)] charge transfer complexes, which are commonly employed in optical sensing and photo(redox) catalysis, underlining the bright future of these molecular ruby analogues.
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Authors Reichenauer, Florian;Wang, Cui;Förster, Christoph;Boden, Pit;Ugur, Naz;Báez-Cruz, Ricardo;Kalmbach, Jens;Carrella, Luca M;Rentschler, Eva;Ramanan, Charusheela;Niedner-Schatteburg, Gereon;Gerhards, Markus;Seitz, Michael;Resch-Genger, Ute;Heinze, Katja;
Journal Journal of the American Chemical Society
Year 2021
DOI
10.1021/jacs.1c05971
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Keywords
denitrification nitrogen cycle cavity-enhanced raman spectroscopy multi-gas analysis

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