Crystal Structure and Energy Transfer in Double-Complex Salts Composed of Tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) or Tris(2,2'-bipyridine)osmium(II) and Hexacyanochromate(III)

Takuhiro Otsuka; Naoto Takahashi; Naoki Fujigasaki; Akiko Sekine; Yuji Ohashi; Youkoh Kaizu

doi:10.1021/ic9810541

Crystal Structure and Energy Transfer in Double-Complex Salts Composed of Tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) or Tris(2,2'-bipyridine)osmium(II) and Hexacyanochromate(III)

Inorg Chem. 1999 Mar 22;38(6):1340-1347. doi: 10.1021/ic9810541.

Authors

Takuhiro Otsuka¹, Naoto Takahashi, Naoki Fujigasaki, Akiko Sekine, Yuji Ohashi, Youkoh Kaizu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.

PMID: 11670923
DOI: 10.1021/ic9810541

Abstract

In crystals of double-complex salts [M(bpy)(3)](2)[Cr(CN)(6)]Cl.8H(2)O (M(2+) = Ru(2+), Os(2+); bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine), luminescence from (3)CT state of [M(bpy)(3)](2+) is partially quenched by [Cr(CN)(6)](3)(-) at 77 K and room temperature (RT). This quenching is attributed to intermolecular excitation energy transfer from the (3)CT state of [M(bpy)(3)](2+) to the (2)E(g) state of [Cr(CN)(6)](3)(-). Crystal structure and crystal parameters of [Os(bpy)(3)](2)[Cr(CN)(6)]Cl.8H(2)O: monoclinic, C2, a = 22.384(4) Å, b = 13.827(4) Å, c = 22.186(3) Å, beta = 90.70(2) degrees, V = 6866(2) Å(3), Z = 4, R = 0.0789, R(w) = 0.1932: are almost the same as those of [Ru(bpy)(3)](2)[Cr(CN)(6)]Cl.8H(2)O: monoclinic, C2, a = 22.414(2) Å, b = 13.7686(15) Å, c = 22.207(2) Å, beta = 90.713(8) degrees, V = 6852.9(12) Å(3), Z = 4, R = 0.0554, R(w) = 0.1679. Moreover, these double complex salts have the same distance and relative orientation between donor and acceptor. The rate of intermolecular energy transfer from [M(bpy)(3)](2+) to [Cr(CN)(6)](3)(-) was evaluated by the decay time of luminescence from (3)CT state of [M(bpy)(3)](2+) in single- and double-complex salts. The rate of energy transfer in [Os(bpy)(3)](2)[Cr(CN)(6)]Cl.8H(2)O (4.9 x 10(7) s(-)(1)) is about eight times larger than that in [Ru(bpy)(3)](2)[Cr(CN)(6)]Cl.8H(2)O (6.0 x 10(6) s(-)(1)) at 77 K. The difference of energy transfer rate is brought about by only the spectral overlap between the normalized luminescence spectrum from the (3)CT state of donor ([M(bpy)(3)](2+)) and the normalized excitation spectrum of the (2)E(g) state of acceptor ([Cr(CN)(6)](3)(-)) in the salts. Decay rates of the (3)CT state in [M(bpy)(3)](2)[Cr(CN)(6)]Cl.8H(2)O were measured as a function of temperature. A large enhancement of a decay rate from the (3)CT state was obtained for [Ru(bpy)(3)](2)[Cr(CN)(6)]Cl.8H(2)O as the temperature was increased. This result implies that an additional path from the (3)CT state of [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) to the (2)T(2g) state of [Cr(CN)(6)](3)(-) would be opened for energy transfer with a rise in temperature in [Ru(bpy)(3)](2)[Cr(CN)(6)]Cl.8H(2)O.