Luminescence and reactivity of a charge-transfer excited iron complex with nanosecond lifetime

Kasper Skov Kjær, Nidhi Kaul, Om Prakash, Pavel Chábera, Nils W. Rosemann, Alireza Honarfar, Olga Gordivska, Lisa A. Fredin, Karl-Erik Bergquist, Lennart Häggström, Tore Ericsson, Linnea Lindh, Arkady Yartsev, Stenbjörn Styring, Ping Huang, Jens Uhlig, Jesper Bendix, Daniel Strand, Villy Sundström, Petter PerssonReiner Lomoth, Kenneth Wärnmark

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Abstract

Iron’s abundance and rich coordination chemistry are potentially appealing features for photochemical applications. However, the photoexcitable charge-transfer states of most iron complexes are limited by picosecond or subpicosecond deactivation through low-lying metal-centered states, resulting in inefficient electron-transfer reactivity and complete lack of photoluminescence. In this study, we show that octahedral coordination of iron(III) by two mono-anionic facial tris-carbene ligands can markedly suppress such deactivation.The resulting complex [Fe(phtmeimb) 2 ] + , where phtmeimb is {phenyl[tris(3-methylimidazol-1-ylidene)] borate} , exhibits strong, visible, room temperature photoluminescence with a 2.0-nanosecond lifetime and 2% quantum yield via spin-allowed transition from a doublet ligand-to-metal charge-transfer ( 2 LMCT) state to the doublet ground state. Reductive and oxidative electron-transfer reactions were observed for the 2 LMCT state of [Fe(phtmeimb) 2 ] + in bimolecular quenching studies with methylviologen and diphenylamine.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftScience
Vol/bind363
Udgave nummer6424
Sider (fra-til)249-253
ISSN0036-8075
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 18 jan. 2019

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