Controlling Near-Infrared Chromophore Electronic Properties through Metal-Ligand Orbital Alignment

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Mews, Nicole M. ; Berkefeld, Andreas ; Hörner, Gerald ; Schubert, Hartmut:
Controlling Near-Infrared Chromophore Electronic Properties through Metal-Ligand Orbital Alignment.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 139 (2017) Issue 7 . - pp. 2808-2815.
ISSN 1520-5126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b13085

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Transition-metal complexes of radical ligands can exhibit low-energy electronic transitions in the near-infrared (NIR) spectral region. NIR band energy and intensity sensitively depend on the degree of electronic coupling of the chromophore. Using the example of open-shell complexes derived from platinum and a 1,4-terphenyldithiophenol, we present a novel approach toward spectroscopically distinct NIR dyes for which the degree of electronic coupling correlates with the relative orientation of radical ligand and metal orbitals. Ligand/metal orbital alignment is modulated by auxiliary phosphine donors and selectively results in electron localized Class II–III or delocalized Class III structures that display distinct NIR transitions at 6500 and 4000 cm–1.