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Borylation in the Second Coordination Sphere of FeII Cyanido Complexes and Its Impact on Their Electronic Structures and Excited-State Dynamics.


ABSTRACT: Second coordination sphere interactions of cyanido complexes with hydrogen-bonding solvents and Lewis acids are known to influence their electronic structures, whereby the non-labile attachment of B(C6F5)3 resulted in several particularly interesting new compounds lately. Here, we investigate the effects of borylation on the properties of two FeII cyanido complexes in a systematic manner by comparing five different compounds and using a range of experimental techniques. Electrochemical measurements indicate that borylation entails a stabilization of the FeII-based t2g-like orbitals by up to 1.65 eV, and this finding was confirmed by Mössbauer spectroscopy. This change in the electronic structure has a profound impact on the UV-vis absorption properties of the borylated complexes compared to the non-borylated ones, shifting their metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) absorption bands over a wide range. Ultrafast UV-vis transient absorption spectroscopy provides insight into how borylation affects the excited-state dynamics. The lowest metal-centered (MC) excited states become shorter-lived in the borylated complexes compared to their cyanido analogues by a factor of ∼10, possibly due to changes in outer-sphere reorganization energies associated with their decay to the electronic ground state as a result of B(C6F5)3 attachment at the cyanido N lone pair.

SUBMITTER: Schmid L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9554916 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Borylation in the Second Coordination Sphere of Fe<sup>II</sup> Cyanido Complexes and Its Impact on Their Electronic Structures and Excited-State Dynamics.

Schmid Lucius L   Chábera Pavel P   Rüter Isabelle I   Prescimone Alessandro A   Meyer Franc F   Yartsev Arkady A   Persson Petter P   Wenger Oliver S OS  

Inorganic chemistry 20220927 40


Second coordination sphere interactions of cyanido complexes with hydrogen-bonding solvents and Lewis acids are known to influence their electronic structures, whereby the non-labile attachment of B(C<sub>6</sub>F<sub>5</sub>)<sub>3</sub> resulted in several particularly interesting new compounds lately. Here, we investigate the effects of borylation on the properties of two Fe<sup>II</sup> cyanido complexes in a systematic manner by comparing five different compounds and using a range of experi  ...[more]

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