Luminescent PhotoCORMs: Enabling/Disabling CO Delivery upon Blue Light Irradiation

Inorg Chem. 2020 Sep 21;59(18):13078-13090. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00638. Epub 2020 Sep 9.

Abstract

The new luminescent carbonyl compounds [Mn(Oxa-H)(CO)3Br] (1) and [Mn(Oxa-NMe2)(CO)3Br] (2) were synthesized and fully characterized. Complexes 1 and 2 showed CO release under blue light (λ453). Spectroscopic techniques and TD-DFT and SOC-TD-DFT calculations indicated that 1 and 2 release the Oxa-H and Oxa-NMe2 coligands in addition to the carbonyl ligands, increasing the luminescence during photoinduction.