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Published May 26, 1993 | Supplemental Material
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Electronic spectra and photophysics of platinum(II) complexes with α-diimine ligands. Mixed complexes with halide ligands

Abstract

Emission properties have been studied for a series of compounds of the formula (L_2)PtC1_2, where L_2 is N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine, 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy), 4,4'-Me_2bpy, 5,5'-Me_2bpy, 4,4'-(t-Bu)_2bpy, 3,3'-(CH_3OCO)_2bpy, and 1,10-phenanthroline, and also for the compound Pt(bpy)I_2. Most of them exhibit orange to red luminescence from a triplet ligand-field (^3LF) state, both as solids and in glassy solution. These emissions are very broad (fwhm 2300-3400 cm^(-1) at 10 K) and structureless and are strongly Stokes-shifted from absorption. The two exceptions are the solid "red" form of Pt(bpy)Cl_2, which exhibits a relatively narrow (fwhm 1050 cm^(-1) at 10 K), vibronically structured (Δν ~ 1500 cm^-1)) red emission, and Pt(3,3'-(CH_3OCO)_2bpy)Cl_2, which exhibits a broad (fwhm 2500 cm^(-1) at 10 K) but structured (Δν ~1300 cm^(-1)) orange emission. Both of these emissions are assigned to triplet metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (^3MLCT) excited states. For the former compound, a linear-chain structure has destabilized a dσ*(d_(z^2)) level, yielding a dσ* → π*(bpy) state as the lowest energy excited state, while for the latter, the strongly electron-withdrawing substituents have stabilized a bpy π* level, yielding a dσ* → π*(bpy) state as the lowest energy excited state. The relative energies of the various types of excited states, including ligand 3_(ππ*) states, are discussed in detail. The crystal structures of Pt(5,5'-Me_2bpy)Cl_2 (monoclinic Cc, Z = 4, a = 13.413(7) Å, b = 9.063(4) Å, c = 12.261(9) Å, 0 = 121.71(6)') and Pt(3,3'-(CH_3OCO)_2bpy)Cl_2 (triclinic P1, Z = 2, a = 7.288(2) Å, b = 9.932(3) Å, c = 11.881(5) Å, α = 98.04(3)°, β = 103.56(3)°, γ = 106.54(3)°) are reported.

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© 1993 American Chemical Society. Received September 10, 1992. V.M.M. and V.H.H. thank Bill Connick, Jim Bailey, and Harry Gray for many helpful discussions. C.-M.C. acknowledges the Hong Kong Research Grant Council for financial support and the National Taiwan University for a visiting professorship. This work at Caltech was supported by the Office of Naval Research.

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