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Syntheses and quadratic optical nonlinearities of ruthenium(II) complexes with ethynyl-connected N-methylpyridinium electron acceptors

Syntheses and quadratic optical nonlinearities of ruthenium(II) complexes with ethynyl-connected N-methylpyridinium electron acceptors
Syntheses and quadratic optical nonlinearities of ruthenium(II) complexes with ethynyl-connected N-methylpyridinium electron acceptors
We have prepared a number of new dipolar complexes containing ethynyl or buta-1,3-diynyl units linking electron-rich {Ru-11(NH3)(5)}(2+), trans-{Ru-11(NH3)(4)L}(+) (L = pyridine or N-methylimidazole), or trans-{(RuCl)-Cl-11 (pdma)(2)}(+) [pdma = 1,2-phenylenebis(dimethylarsine)] centers to pyridinium electron acceptors. In acetonitrile solutions at 295 K, the new complexes display unusual blue-shifting of their metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) bands as the conjugation is extended, in a fashion similar to that of the corresponding ethenyl systems. Hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) and Stark spectroscopic measurements provide direct and indirect estimates of static first hyperpolarizabilities beta(0), and both the linear and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties are temperature- and medium-dependent. Thus, at 77 K in butyronitrile glasses, the MLCT bands display more normal red shifts upon conjugation extension. While the Stark-derived beta(0) values generally increase as n (the number of ethynyl units) increases from 0 to 2, the HRS data show maximization at n = 1 for two of the ammine series but an increase upon moving from n = 1 to 2 for the pdma complexes. Comparisons with the analogous ethenyl chromophores show that the latter generally display larger beta(0) values, whether determined via HRS or Stark data, and the inferiority of the ethynyl systems in terms of NLO response is more pronounced when n = 2. This differing behavior is attributable primarily to larger increases in the transition dipole moment 02 (and, hence, donor-acceptor pi-electronic coupling) on elongation in the ethenyl chromophores.
transition-metal complexes, hyper-rayleigh scattering, organometallic complexes, cubic hyperpolarizabilities, ammine complexes, trans-tetraammineruthenium(ii) complexes, 1st hyperpolarizabilities, sigma-arylacetylides, crystal-structure, excited-states
0020-1669
1215-1227
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Coe, Benjamin J., Harries, Josephine L., Helliwell, Madeleine, Brunschwig, Bruce S., Harris, James A., Asselberghs, Inge, Hung, Sheng-Ting, Clays, Koen, Horton, Peter N. and Hursthouse, Michael B. (2006) Syntheses and quadratic optical nonlinearities of ruthenium(II) complexes with ethynyl-connected N-methylpyridinium electron acceptors. Inorganic Chemistry, 45 (3), 1215-1227. (doi:10.1021/ic051816+).

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We have prepared a number of new dipolar complexes containing ethynyl or buta-1,3-diynyl units linking electron-rich {Ru-11(NH3)(5)}(2+), trans-{Ru-11(NH3)(4)L}(+) (L = pyridine or N-methylimidazole), or trans-{(RuCl)-Cl-11 (pdma)(2)}(+) [pdma = 1,2-phenylenebis(dimethylarsine)] centers to pyridinium electron acceptors. In acetonitrile solutions at 295 K, the new complexes display unusual blue-shifting of their metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) bands as the conjugation is extended, in a fashion similar to that of the corresponding ethenyl systems. Hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) and Stark spectroscopic measurements provide direct and indirect estimates of static first hyperpolarizabilities beta(0), and both the linear and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties are temperature- and medium-dependent. Thus, at 77 K in butyronitrile glasses, the MLCT bands display more normal red shifts upon conjugation extension. While the Stark-derived beta(0) values generally increase as n (the number of ethynyl units) increases from 0 to 2, the HRS data show maximization at n = 1 for two of the ammine series but an increase upon moving from n = 1 to 2 for the pdma complexes. Comparisons with the analogous ethenyl chromophores show that the latter generally display larger beta(0) values, whether determined via HRS or Stark data, and the inferiority of the ethynyl systems in terms of NLO response is more pronounced when n = 2. This differing behavior is attributable primarily to larger increases in the transition dipole moment 02 (and, hence, donor-acceptor pi-electronic coupling) on elongation in the ethenyl chromophores.

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Published date: 2006
Keywords: transition-metal complexes, hyper-rayleigh scattering, organometallic complexes, cubic hyperpolarizabilities, ammine complexes, trans-tetraammineruthenium(ii) complexes, 1st hyperpolarizabilities, sigma-arylacetylides, crystal-structure, excited-states

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Local EPrints ID: 44407
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/44407
ISSN: 0020-1669
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ORCID for Peter N. Horton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8886-2016

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Date deposited: 05 Mar 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:12

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Author: Benjamin J. Coe
Author: Josephine L. Harries
Author: Madeleine Helliwell
Author: Bruce S. Brunschwig
Author: James A. Harris
Author: Inge Asselberghs
Author: Sheng-Ting Hung
Author: Koen Clays
Author: Peter N. Horton ORCID iD

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