Heteroleptic Copper(I) Complexes Coupled with Methano[60]fullerene: Synthesis, Electrochemistry, and Photophysics

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• 作者：Andrea Listorti ; Gianluca Accorsi ; Yannick Rio ; Nicola Armaroli ; Omar Moudam ; Aline Gé ; gout ; Bé ; atrice Delavaux-Nicot ; Michel Holler ; Jean-Franç ; ois Nierengarten
• 刊名：Inorganic Chemistry
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：July 21, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：47
• 期：14
• 页码：6254 - 6261
• 全文大小：403K
• 年卷期：v.47,no.14(July 21, 2008)
• ISSN：1520-510X

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Heteroleptic copper(I) complexes CuPOP-F and CuFc-F have been prepared from a fullerene-substituted phenanthroline ligand and bis[2-(diphenylphosphino)phenyl] ether (POP) and 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene (dppFc), respectively. Electrochemical studies indicate that some ground-state electronic interaction between the fullerene subunit and the metal-complexed moiety are present in both CuPOP-F and CuFc-F. Their photophysical properties have been investigated by steady state and time-resolved UV−vis−NIR luminescence spectroscopy and nanosecond laser flash photolysis in a CH₂Cl₂ solution and compared to those of the corresponding model copper(I) complexes CuPOP and CuFc and of the fullerene model compound F. Selective excitation of the methanofullerene moiety in CuPOP-F results in regular deactivation of the lowest singlet and triplet states, indicating no intercomponent interactions. Conversely, excitation of the copper(I)-complexed unit (405 nm, 40% selectivity) shows that the strongly luminescent triplet metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (³MLCT) excited state located at 2.40 eV is quenched by the carbon sphere with a rate constant of 1.6 × 10⁸ s⁻¹. Details on the mechanism of photodynamic processes in CuPOP-F via transient absorption are hampered by the rather unfavorable partition of light excitation between the two chromophores. By determination of the yield of formation of the lowest fullerene triplet level through sensitized singlet oxygen luminescence in the NIR region, it is shown that the final sink of photoinduced processes is always the fullerene triplet. This can be populated via a two-step charge-separation charge-recombination process and a less favored ³MLCT → ³C₆₀ triplet−triplet energy-transfer pathway. In CuFc-F, both of the photoexcited copper(I)-complexed and fullerene moieties are quenched by the presence of the ferrocene unit, most likely via ultrafast energy transfer.