Towards longer-lived metal-to-ligand charge transfer states of iron(II) complexes: an N-heterocyclic carbene approach

Yizhu Liu; Tobias Harlang; Sophie E Canton; Pavel Chábera; Karina Suárez-Alcántara; André Fleckhaus; Dimali A Vithanage; Erik Göransson; Alice Corani; Reiner Lomoth; Villy Sundström; Kenneth Wärnmark

doi:10.1039/c3cc43833c

Towards longer-lived metal-to-ligand charge transfer states of iron(II) complexes: an N-heterocyclic carbene approach

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Jul 21;49(57):6412-4. doi: 10.1039/c3cc43833c.

Authors

Yizhu Liu¹, Tobias Harlang, Sophie E Canton, Pavel Chábera, Karina Suárez-Alcántara, André Fleckhaus, Dimali A Vithanage, Erik Göransson, Alice Corani, Reiner Lomoth, Villy Sundström, Kenneth Wärnmark

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Analysis and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden.

PMID: 23752944
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc43833c

Abstract

A 9 ps (3)MLCT lifetime was achieved by a Fe(II) complex based on C(NHC)^N(py)^C(NHC) pincer ligands. This is the longest known so far for any kind of complexes of this abundant metal, and increased by almost two orders of magnitude compared to the reference Fe(II) bis-terpyridine complex.