Facile photoinduced charge separation through a cyanoacetylide bridge in a heterobimetallic Fe(II)-Re(I) complex

Mark E Smith; Emma L Flynn; Mark A Fox; Alexandre Trottier; Eckart Wrede; Dmitri S Yufit; Judith A K Howard; Kate L Ronayne; Michael Towrie; Anthony W Parker; Frantisek Hartl; Paul J Low

doi:10.1039/b811357b

Facile photoinduced charge separation through a cyanoacetylide bridge in a heterobimetallic Fe(II)-Re(I) complex

Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Nov 30:(44):5845-7. doi: 10.1039/b811357b. Epub 2008 Oct 7.

Authors

Mark E Smith¹, Emma L Flynn, Mark A Fox, Alexandre Trottier, Eckart Wrede, Dmitri S Yufit, Judith A K Howard, Kate L Ronayne, Michael Towrie, Anthony W Parker, Frantisek Hartl, Paul J Low

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Rd, Durham, UK DH1 3LE.

PMID: 19009101
DOI: 10.1039/b811357b

Abstract

Photoinduced Fe-to-bpy charge transfer in [{Cp(dppe)Fe}(mu-C[triple bond]CC[triple bond]N){Re(CO)(3)(bpy)}]PF(6) has been observed by ps-TRIR spectroscopy, supported by UV-Vis/IR spectroelectrochemistry and DFT calculations.