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Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds

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150 S. Campagna et al.<br />

Another example showing an “active” role <strong>of</strong> the bridge in mediating intercomponent<br />

transfer processes involving Ru(II) species is evidenced by<br />

23 [233]. In this species, there are two close-lying MLCT states per metal<br />

center involving the bridging lig<strong>and</strong> (leaving aside the MLCT state involving<br />

the peripheral lig<strong>and</strong>s), because <strong>of</strong> the particular nature <strong>of</strong> the bridge<br />

(see Sect. 5.9). The higher energy <strong>of</strong> such MLCT states (MLCT1) involves<br />

a bridging lig<strong>and</strong> orbital mainly centered in the bpy-like coordinating site<br />

(LUMO+1), <strong>and</strong> the lower energy one (MLCT0) islocalizedonthecentral<br />

phenazine-like site (LUMO). Light excitation <strong>of</strong> the Ru-based chromophore<br />

populates the singlet MLCT1 state, which rapidly decays to its triplet counterpart.<br />

Direct light excitation into the singlet MLCT0 level (<strong>and</strong> successive<br />

population <strong>of</strong> its triplet) is inefficient because <strong>of</strong> the negligible oscillator<br />

strength <strong>of</strong> the transition. For Ru-to-Os energy transfer, two possible pathways<br />

are possible: (1) Ru-to-Os energy transfer at the 3 MLCT1 level (EnT),<br />

followed by 3 MLCT1-to- 3 MLCT0 relaxation within the Os(II) chromophore<br />

(a sort <strong>of</strong> intralig<strong>and</strong> electron transfer, ILET, within the Os(II) subunit); <strong>and</strong><br />

(2) 3 MLCT1-to- 3 MLCT0 relaxation within the Ru(II) chromophore (ILET in<br />

Ru(II) subunit), followed by Ru-to-Os energy transfer at the 3 MLCT0 level.<br />

The situation is schematized in Fig. 13 [210, 233].<br />

Interestingly, ultrafast spectroscopy shows that pathway 1 is followed in<br />

dichloromethane <strong>and</strong> pathway 2 prevails in the more polar acetonitrile solvent.<br />

Oligophenyl bridges are reported to play “active” roles in the dinuclear<br />

Ir(III)–Ru(II) species 24–27 [234]. In this series <strong>of</strong> complexes, the Ru-based<br />

component is the energy transfer acceptor subunit. Indeed, Ru-based emission<br />

takes place in all the species at about 625 nm (lifetime about 200 ns) in<br />

aerated acetonitrile at room temperature <strong>and</strong> at about 590 nm (lifetime about<br />

6 µs) in butyronitrile at 77 K, whereas the high-energy Ir-based chromophore<br />

has a very short excited-state lifetime, determined by time-resolved emission<br />

<strong>and</strong> subpicosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, slightly dependent on<br />

the bridge. The energy transfer rate constant is very weakly slowed down by<br />

increasing the bridge length, passing from 8.3 × 10 11 s –1 for the species with<br />

two phenyls as spacer to 3.3 × 10 11 s –1 for the species with five interposed<br />

phenyls. The apparent attenuation parameter β for energy transfer rate con-

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