Syntheses and Characterizations of Cyanido-bridged Dinuclear Ru-complexes and Their MMCT Properties in the One-electron Oxidation State

LIU Yang, ZHU Xiao-Quan, WU Xin-Tao and SHENG Tian-Lu*

Chin. J. Struct. Chem. 2021, 40, 1253-1264  DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-3147

October 15, 2021

electron transfer, mixed-valence, metal to metal charge transfer (MMCT), cyanide bridge

ABSTRACT

We have designed and synthesized a family of dinuclear cyanido-bridged complexes [PY5Me2Ru(μ-CN)Ru(dppe)CpMen][PF6]2 (PY5Me2 = 2,6-bis (1,1-bis (2-pyridyl)ethyl) pyridine, Cp = cyclopentadienyl, n = 0, 2[PF6]2; n = 1, 3[PF6]2; n = 5, 4[PF6]2) by using a mononuclear complex [PY5Me2Ru(μ-CN)][PF6] (1) as the precursor. All the three complexes have been fully characterized by including single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The one-electron oxidation complexes 23+, 33+ and 43+ obtained in situ all show a MMCT absorption band in the visible range. The MMCT energy increases as the redox potential of the N-terminal fragments decreases, and the redox potential decreases as the number of methyl groups on the cyclopentadiene of the cyanido-nitrogen coordinated Ru metal increases, supported by the TDF/TDDFT calculations.

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