Syntheses, Structures,
and Electronic and Optical
Properties of Platinum(II) Complexes of 1,3-Bis(imino)benzene-Derived
Pincer Ligands
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Abstract
Six new Pt<sup>II</sup> complexes of 5-substituted 1,3-bis(<i>N</i>-methylimino)benzene (bIBH)-derived ligands have been synthesized
by direct reactions with K<sub>2</sub>Pt<sup>II</sup>Cl<sub>4</sub> in glacial acetic acid. The ethenylene groups in the two styryl-substituted
complexes undergo <i>E</i>–<i>Z</i> photoisomerization,
as revealed by <sup>1</sup>H NMR spectroscopy. The UV–vis spectra
of the styryl-/aryl-substituted complexes show intense high-energy
bands due to ligand-based π → π* transitions and
a number of weaker bands at lower energies in the 300–500 nm
region. Time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations
indicate that the latter absorptions have mixed intraligand π
→ π* and Pt(d) → π* metal-to-ligand charge-transfer
(MLCT) character. Four of the new complexes give vibronically structured
emission profiles in fluid solution at room temperature. The luminescence
quantum yields and lifetimes in nondegassed dichloromethane are in
the ranges 0.1–0.2% and 159–170 ns, respectively. In
contrast, the styryl-substituted complexes are nonemissive, due to
excited-state quenching by <i>E</i> → <i>Z</i> isomerization. DFT indicates that the emissive triplet state has
mixed ligand-to-ligand charge-transfer and MLCT character, with a
geometry distorted with respect to the symmetric ground state. Single-crystal
X-ray structures have been determined for two of the complexes, showing
N–Pt–N angles of ca. 159°. The complex of an unsubstituted
bIB<sup>–</sup> ligand is deep red and forms columns with short
Pt···Pt distances of ca. 3.55 Å, indicating weak
intermetallic interactions