Electron-transfer (ET) reactions from aromatic amines to excited states of rhenium(I)-based molecular rec
tangles[{Re(CO)
3(
-bpy)Br}{Re(CO)
3(
-L)Br}]
2 (bpy = 4,4'-bipyridine, L = 4,4'-dipyridylacetylene (dpa),
I; L =4,4'-dipyridylbutadiyne (dpb),
II; and L = 1,4-bis(4'-pyridylethynyl)benzene (bpeb),
III) were investigatedin a dichloromethane solution using luminescence quenching techniques. Direct evidence for the ET reactionwas obtained from the detection of the amine cation radical in this system using time-resolved transientabsorption spectroscopy. The values of the luminescence quenching rate constants,
kq, of the
3MLCT excitedstate of Re(I) rec
tangles with amines were found to be higher than those for the monomeric Re(I) complexesand other Re(I)-based metallacyclophanes. The observed
kq values were correlated well with the drivingforce (
G) for the ET reactions. In addition, a semiclassical theory of ET was successfully applied to thephotoluminescence quenching of Re(I) rec
tangles with amines.