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Title: Formation of luminescent, bent Ir-TI-Ir and Ir-Pb-Ir chains through the binding of thallium(I) and lead(II) to the iridium metallomacrocycle Ir2(CO)2Cl2) -(Ph2PCH2)2AsPh)2

Journal Article · · J. Am. Chem. Soc.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00247a054· OSTI ID:6163669

Considerable attention has recently been focused on the photochemical and photophysical properties of a number of luminescent binuclear transition-metal complexes. Much of this work has concerned dimeric planar complexes with a dY electronic configuration where a d p electronic transition is involved in the novel photolytic behavior. Here the authors report their observations of the formation of new trinuclear complexes that are luminescent in solution at room temperature. These involve binding of simple thallium(I) and lead(II) ions by the metallomacrocycle Ir2-(CO)2Cl2( -dpma)2, 1 (dpma is bis(diphenylphosphinomethyl)phenylarsine), which contains two planar dY Ir(I) ions. previous studies have demonstrated that this type of metallomacrocycle is capable of binding a variety of transition-metal ions in the central cavity of with the arsenic atoms playing an important role in coordination of the added metal ion. However the binding of the main-group ions, thallium(I) and lead (II), is wholly unprecendented.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Davis
OSTI ID:
6163669
Journal Information:
J. Am. Chem. Soc.; (United States), Vol. 109:13
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English