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Christian Reichardt1,2, Tariq Sainuddin3, Maria Wächtler2, Susan Monro3, Stephan Kupfer1, Julien Guthmuller4, Stefanie Gräfe1, Sherri McFarland3,5, Benjamin Dietzek1,2.
Abstract
The influence of ligand protonation on the photophysics of a ruthenium (Ru) dyad bearing the 2-(1-pyrenyl)-1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]-phenanthroline (ippy) ligand was investigated by time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy. It was found that changes in the protonation state of the imidazole group led to changes in the electronic configuration of the lowest lying excited state. Formation of the fully deprotonated imidazole anion resulted in excited state signatures that were consistent with a low-lying intraligand (IL) triplet state. This assignment was supported by time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations. IL triplet states have been suggested to be potent mediators of photodynamic effects. Thus, these results are of interest in the design of Ru metal complexes as photosensitizers (PSs) for photodynamic therapy (PDT).Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27459188 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b05957
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Phys Chem A ISSN: 1089-5639 Impact factor: 2.781