Nature Chemistry - Although noble metal coordination complexes typically show promising photophysical properties that enable applications in lighting, photocatalysis and solar energy conversion,...

Many organometallic iridium(III) complexes have photoactive excited states with mixed metal-to-ligand and intraligand charge transfer (MLCT/ILCT) character, which form the basis for numerous applic...

Light-triggered dissociation of ligands forms the basis for many compounds of interest for photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), in which medicinally active substances are released or “uncaged” from...

Inorganic and Organometallic Photochemistry Lab

Many organometallic iridium(III) complexes have photoactive excited states with mixed metal-to-ligand and intraligand charge transfer (MLCT/ILCT) character, which form the basis for numerous applic...

Stop rotating! Tetraphenylethylene (TPE) bridged tetrakis-NHC precursors display fluorescence turn-on in dilute solution upon formation of organometallic chelate complexes. The fluorescence enhance...

Inorganic and Organometallic Photochemistry Lab

Substituting precious elements in luminophores and photocatalysts by abundant first-row transition metals remains a significant challenge, and iron continues to be particularly attractive owing to...

Nature Chemistry - Manganese(i) is isoelectronic to iron(ii) but has typically been overlooked as a cheap Earth-abundant metal for the development of 3d6 metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT)...

Square-planar NiII complexes and their electronically excited states play key roles in cross-coupling catalysis and could offer new opportunities to complement well-known isoelectronic PtII luminop...

Expensive noble metals often play a vital role in illuminating screens or converting solar energy into fuels. Now, chemists at the University of Basel have succeeded in replacing these rare elements...

Expensive noble metals often play a vital role in illuminating screens or converting solar energy into fuels. Now, chemists at the University of Basel have succeeded in replacing these rare elements...

Photoredox catalysis typically relies on the use of single chromophores, whereas strategies, in which two different light absorbers are combined, are rare. In photosystems I and II of green plants,...

ConspectusOver the past two decades, self-assembly of supramolecular architectures has become a field of intensive research due to the wide range of applications for the resulting assemblies in...

Photoredox-active Cr(0) luminophores with a bulky, rigid ligand framework

Steady state and ultrafast spectroscopy on [FeIII(phtmeimb)2]PF6 (phtmeimb = phenyl(tris(3-methylimidazol-2-ylidene))borate) was performed over a broad range of temperatures. The intramolecular...

Homoleptic Cr(iii) complexes containing anionic tridentate 1,8-(bisoxazolyl)carbazolide ligands are phosphorescent in deaerated solutions with peak maxima in the range of 813–845 nm. The ligand...

A study of a series of six-coordinate Co(III) complexes has been carried out to quantify spectroscopic parameters for a range of ligands that are commonly employed to realize strong charge-transfer...

Symmetry-breaking charge separation in molecular materials has attracted increasing attention for optoelectronics based on single-material active layers. To this end, Fe(III) complexes with particu...

Solvophobic effects have been shown to play a crucial role in the formation and stability of a series of organometallic Borromean rings (BRs) and [2]catenanes prepared from benzobiscarbene complexe...

A series of homoleptic Cr(iii) complexes containing substituted anionic 1,3-bis(pyridin-2-ylimino)isoindolin-2-ide ligands are phosphorescent with λmax in the 777–970 nm range in degassed fluid...

Two-coordinate carbene-MI-amide (cMa, MI = Cu, Ag, Au) complexes have emerged as highly efficient luminescent materials for use in a variety of photonic applications due to their extremely fast...

Understanding the hydrofunctionalization: A tridentate ligand bearing a quinoline, aryl amide and alkyl amine moieties is highly-reactive for the anti-Markovnikov hydrofunctionalization of tethered...