Direct Evidence of Visible Light-Induced Homolysis in Chlorobis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II)
Abstract
Developments in the field of photoredox catalysis that leveraged the long-lived excited states of Ir(III) and Ru(II) photosensi-tizers to enable radical coupling processes, paved the way for explorations of synthetic transformations that would otherwise remain unrealized. While first row transition metal photocatalysts have not been as extensively investigated, valuable syn-thetic transformations covering broad scopes of olefin functionalization have been recently reported featuring photoactivated chlorobis(phenanthroline) Cu(II) complexes. In the current study, the photochemical processes underpinning the catalytic activity of [Cu(dmp)2Cl]Cl (dmp = 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline) were investigated. The combined results from static spectroscopic investigations and conventional photochemistry, ultrafast transient absorption, and electron paramagnetic reso-nance (EPR) spin trapping experiments, strongly support blue light (λex = 427 or 470 nm) induced Cu-Cl homolytic bond cleavage in [Cu(dmp)2Cl]+ occurring in less than 100 femtoseconds. Based on electronic structure calculations, this bond breaking photochemistry corresponds to the Cl → Cu(II) ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) transition, unmasking a Cu(I) species [Cu(dmp)2]+ and a Cl• atom, thereby serving as a departure point for both Cu(I)- or Cu(II)-based photoredox transformations. No net photochemistry was observed through direct excitation of the ligand-field transitions in the red (λex = 785 or 800 nm), and all combined experiments indicated no evidence of Cu-Clmore »
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- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
- Univ. of Regensburg (Germany)
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- Research Org.:
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States); North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1634193
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1643989
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019370; SC0011979
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1948-7185
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; redox reactions; adducts; absorption; electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; excited states
Citation Formats
Fayad, Remi, Engl, Sebastian, Danilov, Evgeny O., Hauke, Cory E., Reiser, Oliver, and Castellano, Felix N. Direct Evidence of Visible Light-Induced Homolysis in Chlorobis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II). United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01601.
Fayad, Remi, Engl, Sebastian, Danilov, Evgeny O., Hauke, Cory E., Reiser, Oliver, & Castellano, Felix N. Direct Evidence of Visible Light-Induced Homolysis in Chlorobis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II). United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01601
Fayad, Remi, Engl, Sebastian, Danilov, Evgeny O., Hauke, Cory E., Reiser, Oliver, and Castellano, Felix N. Mon .
"Direct Evidence of Visible Light-Induced Homolysis in Chlorobis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II)". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01601. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1634193.
@article{osti_1634193,
title = {Direct Evidence of Visible Light-Induced Homolysis in Chlorobis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II)},
author = {Fayad, Remi and Engl, Sebastian and Danilov, Evgeny O. and Hauke, Cory E. and Reiser, Oliver and Castellano, Felix N.},
abstractNote = {Developments in the field of photoredox catalysis that leveraged the long-lived excited states of Ir(III) and Ru(II) photosensi-tizers to enable radical coupling processes, paved the way for explorations of synthetic transformations that would otherwise remain unrealized. While first row transition metal photocatalysts have not been as extensively investigated, valuable syn-thetic transformations covering broad scopes of olefin functionalization have been recently reported featuring photoactivated chlorobis(phenanthroline) Cu(II) complexes. In the current study, the photochemical processes underpinning the catalytic activity of [Cu(dmp)2Cl]Cl (dmp = 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline) were investigated. The combined results from static spectroscopic investigations and conventional photochemistry, ultrafast transient absorption, and electron paramagnetic reso-nance (EPR) spin trapping experiments, strongly support blue light (λex = 427 or 470 nm) induced Cu-Cl homolytic bond cleavage in [Cu(dmp)2Cl]+ occurring in less than 100 femtoseconds. Based on electronic structure calculations, this bond breaking photochemistry corresponds to the Cl → Cu(II) ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) transition, unmasking a Cu(I) species [Cu(dmp)2]+ and a Cl• atom, thereby serving as a departure point for both Cu(I)- or Cu(II)-based photoredox transformations. No net photochemistry was observed through direct excitation of the ligand-field transitions in the red (λex = 785 or 800 nm), and all combined experiments indicated no evidence of Cu-Cl bond cleavage under these conditions. The underlying visible light-induced homolysis (VLIH) of a metal-ligand bond yielding a one electron reduced photosensitizer and a radical species, may form the basis for novel transformations initiated by photoinduced homolysis featuring in-situ formed metal-substrate adducts utilizing first row transition metal complexes.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01601},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters},
number = ,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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