Chemistry Faculty Publications
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Article
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The photophysics of six bipyridyl platinum(II) bisstilbenylacetylide complexes with different auxiliary substituents are reported. These photophysical properties have been investigated in detail by UV-vis, photoluminescence (both at room temperature and at 77 K) and transient absorption (nanosecond and femtosecond) spectroscopies, as well as by linear response time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations. The photophysics of the complexes are found to be dominated by the singlet and triplet pi,pi* transitions localized at the stilbenylacetylide ligands with strong admixture of the metal-to-ligand (MLCT) and ligand-to-ligand (LLCT) charge-transfer characters. The interplay between the pi,pi* and MLCT/LLCT states depends on the electron-withdrawing or -donating properties of the substituents on the stilbenylacetylide ligands. All complexes exhibit remarkable reverse saturable absorption (RSA) at 532 nm for nanosecond laser pulses, with the complex that contains the NPh2 substituent giving the strongest RSA and the complex with NO2 substituent showing the weakest RSA.
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Li, Zhongjing; Badaeva, Ekaterina; Zhou, Dapeng; Bjorgaard, Josiah; Glusac, Ksenija D.; Killina, Svetlana; and Sun, Wenfang, "Tuning Photophysics And Nonlinear Absorption Of Bipyridyl Platinum(ii) Bisstilbenylacetylide Complexes By Auxiliary Substituents" (2012). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 61.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/chem_pub/61
Publication Date
5-2012
Publication Title
Journal Of Physical Chemistry A
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/jp302194r
Start Page No.
4878
End Page No.
4889