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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>: Copper 79<br />

has a strong tendency to bind phenanthroline-type lig<strong>and</strong>s [27] originating<br />

a wealth <strong>of</strong> simple tetrahedral [Cu(NN)2] + complexeswithhighyields.<br />

The parent compound [Cu(phen)2] + (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) has been<br />

scarcely studied, probably due to the lack <strong>of</strong> long-lived electronic excited<br />

states in solution, a problem that is partially avoided in the solid state, where<br />

some emission has been detected [28]. The most common [Cu(NN)2] + complexes<br />

are those 2,9 or 4,7 disubstituted phenanthrolines, due to an easier<br />

synthetic accessibility <strong>of</strong> the related lig<strong>and</strong>s.<br />

The development <strong>of</strong> sophisticated synthetic strategies, which take advantage<br />

<strong>of</strong> this metal-lig<strong>and</strong> affinity, has afforded a number <strong>of</strong> complicated<br />

molecular architectures like catenanes [29–31], rotaxanes [7, 32, 33],<br />

Fig. 8 Selected examples <strong>of</strong> multicomponent arrays containing Cu(I)-bisphenanthroline<br />

centers: A catenane, B rotaxane (R=4-[tris-(4-tert-butyl-phenyl)-methyl]-phenolato),<br />

C grid, D dendrimer (R=C8H17)

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