Triflate salts of three (Pt(pip
2NCN))
2(
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-L)
2+ (pip
2NCNH = 1,3-bis(piperidylmethyl)benzene) dimers bridged by aseries of nitrogen-donor ligands (L = pyrazine (pyz), 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane (bpa),
trans-1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene(bpe)) are reported. These complexes have been fully characterized by
1H NMR spectroscopy and elementalanalysis. The X-ray crystal structures of [(Pt(pip
2NCN))
2(
![](/images/entities/mgr.gif)
-pyz)](CF
3SO
3)
2 and [(Pt(pip
2NCN))
2(
![](/images/entities/mgr.gif)
-bpe)](CF
3SO
3)
2·2CH
2Cl
2 are reported. [(Pt(pip
2NCN))
2(
![](/images/entities/mgr.gif)
-pyz)](CF
3SO
3)
2: triclinic,
P![](/images/entities/onemacr.gif)
,
a = 12.5240(5) Å,
b = 14.1570(6) Å,
c = 14.2928(6) Å,
![](/images/gifchars/alpha.gif)
= 106.458(1)
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
,
![](/images/gifchars/beta2.gif)
= 92.527(1)
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
,
![](/images/gifchars/gamma.gif)
= 106.880(1)
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,
V = 2303.46(17) Å
3,
Z = 2. [(Pt(pip
2NCN))
2(
![](/images/entities/mgr.gif)
-bpe)](CF
3SO
3)
2·2CH
2Cl
2: monoclinic,
P2
1/
c,
a = 10.1288(6) Å,
b = 16.3346(9) Å,
c = 17.4764(10) Å,
![](/images/gifchars/beta2.gif)
=90.882(2)
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,
V =
2891.1(3) Å
3,
Z = 2. These structures and solution measurements provide evidence for thestrong trans-directing properties of the pip
2NCN
- ligand. The electronic structures of these complexes and thoseof the 4,4'-bipyridine (bpy) dimer, (Pt(pip
2NCN))
2(
![](/images/entities/mgr.gif)
-bpy)
2+, also have been investigated by UV-visible absorptionand emission spectroscopies, as well as cyclic voltammetry. The accumulated data indicate that variations in thebridging ligands provide remarkable control over the electronic structures and photophysics of these complexes.Notably, the bpa dimer exhibits a broad, low-energy emission from a metal-centered
3LF excited state, whereasthe bpe and bpy dimers exhibit structured emission from a lowest pyridyl-centered
3(
![](/images/gifchars/pi.gif)
-
![](/images/gifchars/pi.gif)
*) excited state. In contrast,the pyz dimer exhibits remarkably intense yellow emission tentatively assigned to a triplet metal-to-ligand charge-transfer excited state.