Synthesis and photophysics of one mononuclear Mn(III) and one dinuclear Mn(III,III) complex covalently linked to a ruthenium(II) tris(bipyridyl) complex

Anh Johansson; Malin Abrahamsson; Ann Magnuson; Ping Huang; Jerker Mårtensson; Stenbjörn Styring; Leif Hammarström; Licheng Sun; Björn Akermark

doi:10.1021/ic0344822

Synthesis and photophysics of one mononuclear Mn(III) and one dinuclear Mn(III,III) complex covalently linked to a ruthenium(II) tris(bipyridyl) complex

Inorg Chem. 2003 Nov 17;42(23):7502-11. doi: 10.1021/ic0344822.

Authors

Anh Johansson¹, Malin Abrahamsson, Ann Magnuson, Ping Huang, Jerker Mårtensson, Stenbjörn Styring, Leif Hammarström, Licheng Sun, Björn Akermark

Affiliation

¹ Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 14606845
DOI: 10.1021/ic0344822

Abstract

The preparation of donor (D)-photosensitizer (S) arrays, consisting of a manganese complex as D and a ruthenium tris(bipyridyl) complex as S has been pursued. Two new ruthenium complexes containing coordinating sites for one (2a) and two manganese ions (3a) were prepared in order to provide models for the donor side of photosystem II in green plants. The manganese coordinating site consists of bridging and terminal phenolate as well as terminal pyridyl ligands. The corresponding ruthenium-manganese complexes, a manganese monomer 2b and dimer 3b, were obtained. For the dimer 3b, our data suggest that intramolecular electron transfer from manganese to photogenerated ruthenium(III) is fast, k(ET) > 5 x 10(7) s(-)(1).