The highly electron-deficient,
-octafluorinated
meso-tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)-porphyrin (H
2F
28TPP) was metalatedwith platinum to afford the oxidatively robust luminophore [PtF
28TPP], and its X-ray structure shows that the porphyrincore exists in a slightly saddle-shaped conformation. The absorption spectrum of [PtF
28TPP] in CH
2Cl
2 displays anear-UV Soret band (B) at 383 nm (
= 2.85 × 10
5 dm
3 mol
-1 cm
-1) and two visible Q(1,0) and Q(0,0) bands at501 (
= 1.45 × 10
4 dm
3 mol
-1 cm
-1) and 533 (
= 1.36 × 10
4 dm
3 mol
-1 cm
-1) nm, respectively. Theseabsorption bands of [PtF
28TPP] are blue-shifted from those in [PtF
20TPP] (390, 504, and 538 nm, respectively) and[PtTPP] (401, 509, and 539 nm, respectively). Excitation of [PtF
28TPP] (complex concentration = 1.5 × 10
-6 moldm
-3) in dichloromethane at the Soret or Q(1,0) or Q(0,0) band gave a phosphorescence with peak maximum at650 nm (lifetime = 5.8
s) and a weak shoulder at 712 nm. Both the emission lifetime and quantum yield vary withsolvent polarity, and plots of
versus
EK and
versus
EK (where
EK is the empirical solvent polarity parameterbased on the hypsochromic shift of the longest wavelength absorption of the [Mo(CO)
4{(C
5H
4N)HC=NCH
2C
6H
5}]complex with increasing solvent polarity; see: Kamlet, M. J.; Abboud, J. L. M.; Taft, R. W.
Prog. Phys. Org. Chem.1981,
13, pp 485-630) show linear correlation, indicating that the emission is sensitive to the local environment/medium. Electrochemical studies on [PtF
28TPP] by cyclic voltammetry showed no porphyrin-centered oxidation atpotential
1.5 V versus Ag/AgNO
3, demonstrating that [PtF
28TPP] is more resistant toward oxidation than [PtF
20TPP] (
E1/2 = 1.33 V) and [PtTPP] (
E1/2 = 0.97 V). The porphyrin-centered reduction of [PtF
28TPP] occurs at -0.75and -1.18 V, which is anodically shifted from those at -1.06 and -1.55 V in [PtF
20TPP], and -1.51 V in [PtTPP],respectively. The excited-state reduction potential of [PtF
28TPP] is estimated to be 1.49 V versus Ag/AgNO
3. Over97% of the emission intensity of [PtF
28TPP] was retained after irradiation with a high power mercury arc lamp (500W) for 14 h, compared to 90% and 12% for [PtF
20TPP] and [PtTPP], respectively; hence, [PtF
28TPP] exhibitssuperior photostability. Quenching of the emission of [PtF
28TPP] by oxygen, alcohol, catechol, and butylaminereveals that [PtF
28TPP] is an oxidatively robust material with medium-sensitive photoluminescence properties.