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Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds

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<strong>Photochemistry</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Photophysics</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Coordination</strong> <strong>Compounds</strong>: Ruthenium 163<br />

The fluoro substituents which are present on the peripheral Ir chromophores<br />

have the role <strong>of</strong> increasing the excited-state energy levels <strong>of</strong> the outer Ir chromophores<br />

with regard to the inner ones, so generating the correct energy<br />

gradient.<br />

Multi-ruthenium dendrimers <strong>of</strong> the 2,3-dpp family discussed above have<br />

also been functionalized with organic electron donor subunits, to yield integrated<br />

light-harvesting antennae/electron donor systems for charge separation.<br />

In particular, a triruthenium dendron has been coupled with a tetrathiafulvalene<br />

(TTF) derivative [278] <strong>and</strong> the tetranuclear OsRu3 has been functionalized<br />

at the peripheral bpy lig<strong>and</strong>s with up to six phenothiazine subunits<br />

[279]. In both cases, the light-harvesting antenna emission was totally<br />

quenched by reductive electron transfer from the electron donor subunit.<br />

Interestingly, the electron donor quenchers were not directly linked to the energy<br />

trap <strong>of</strong> the antenna; however, the electron transfer process was fast <strong>and</strong>

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