Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds
Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds
Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds
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Fig. 8 Distance dependence <strong>of</strong> photoinduced electron transfer rates in the dyads <strong>of</strong><br />
Chart 1: Ru-ph-Rh, Ru-ph2-Rh, Ru-ph3-Rh (dots), Ru-ph ′ 3-Rh (triangle)<br />
This is the behavior predicted for electron transfer in the superexchange<br />
regime [5,93,95] if the distance dependence <strong>of</strong> the reorganizational energy<br />
term can be neglected. The β valueobtainedfromtheslope<strong>of</strong>thelinein<br />
Fig. 8, 0.65 ˚A –1 , should be regarded as an upper limiting value for the attenuation<br />
factor <strong>of</strong> the intercomponent electronic coupling (Eq. 9). This β value<br />
is in the range found for other oligophenylene-containing systems (organic<br />
dyads [96, 97], metal–molecules–metal junctions [98]). This underlines the<br />
goodability<strong>of</strong>thistype<strong>of</strong>bridgestomediatedonor–acceptorelectroniccoupling<br />
(for comparison, β is typically 0.8–1.2 ˚A –1 for rigid aliphatic bridges). In<br />
this regard, it is instructive to compare the electron transfer rate constant observed<br />
for Ru-ph-Rh (k = 3.0 × 109 s –1 ) with that mentioned above for dyad<br />
15 containing an aliphatic bis-methylene bridge (k = 1.7 × 108 s –1 ). Despite the<br />
longer metal–metal distance (15.5 ˚A for Ru-ph-Rh relative to 13.5 ˚A for 15),<br />
the reaction is faster across the phenylene spacer by more than one order <strong>of</strong><br />
magnitude.<br />
An interesting result [6, 92] is the fact that dyad Ru-ph ′ 3-Rh, which is iden-<br />
tical to Ru-ph3-Rh except for the presence <strong>of</strong> two solubilizing hexyl groups on<br />
the central phenylene ring, is one order <strong>of</strong> magnitude slower than its unsubstituted<br />
analog (Fig. 8). This is related to the notion that in a superexchange<br />
mechanism the rate is sensitive to the electronic coupling between adjacent<br />
modules <strong>of</strong> the spacer [5, 93, 95], <strong>and</strong> that in polyphenylene bridges this coupling<br />
is a sensitive function <strong>of</strong> the twist angle between adjacent spacers [99].<br />
While the planes <strong>of</strong> unsubstituted adjacent phenylene units form angles <strong>of</strong>.<br />
20 ◦ –40 ◦ [100, 101], ring substitution leads to a substantial increase in the<br />
twist angle (to ca. 70 ◦ ) [100] <strong>and</strong>, as a consequence, to a slowing down <strong>of</strong> the<br />
electron transfer process.<br />
A number <strong>of</strong> Ru(II)-Rh(III) dyads have been reported where little or any<br />
photoinduced electron transfer quenching <strong>of</strong> the Ru(II)-based MLCT emis-