The first spectroscopic investigation of Pd(qol)
2 (qol
- = 8-quinolinolato-
N,
O = oxinate) dissolved in an
n-octanematrix (Shpol's
kii matrix) is reported. Application of several spectroscopic methods at liquid helium temperatures(typically,
T = 1.2 K), such as site-selective and highly resolved luminescence and excitation spectroscopy, time-resolved emission spectroscopy, optically detected magnetic resonance, microwave recovery, phosphorescencemicrowave double-resonance, and magnetic fields, allows us to characterize the lowest excited electronic statesin detail. In accord with previous assignments for the related Pt(qol)
2 it is shown that these lowest states representintraligand charge-transfer states, namely,
1ILCT and
3ILCT. The electronic origin of the
1ILCT state lies at20 617 cm
-1 (site A). It exhibits a nearly homogeneous line width with a half-width of about 80 cm
-1 (fwhm),which corresponds to a lifetime of
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(
1ILCT)
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2 × 10
-13 s. This value is even shorter than that found for Pt(qol)
2, presumably due to intersystem crossings and relaxations to dd* states. The electronic origin of the
3ILCTstate lies at 16 090 cm
-1 (site A), and its zero-field splittings (zfs) into three sublevels are 2
E = 2356 MHz(0.0785 cm
-1) and
D -
E = 5241 MHz (0.175 cm
-1). The emission decay times of the three sublevels aredetermined as
I = 90 ± 30 ms,
II = 180 ± 10
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s, and
III = 80 ± 10
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s. (Slightly different values are foundfor a second site B at 16 167 cm
-1.) From the small values of zfs and the long emission decay times it is concludedthat metal-d or MLCT admixtures to
3ILCT are very small. This result clearly reflects the ligand-centered characterof the transition. The assignment as an ILCT transition is supported by the occurrence of relatively strong vibrationalsatellites of Pd-N and Pd-O character in highly resolved emission spectra. Although the transition is ascribedto a charge-transfer process, the geometry changes between the ground state and
3ILCT are very small. Theresults found for Pd(qol)
2 are compared to those of companion studies of Pt(qol)
2 and Pt(qtl)
2 (qtl
- =8-quinolinethiolato-
N,
S).