Very large acceleration of the photoinduced electron transfer in a Ru(bpy)3-naphthalene bisimide dyad bridged on the naphthyl core

Frédérique Chaignon; Magnus Falkenström; Susanne Karlsson; Errol Blart; Fabrice Odobel; Leif Hammarström

doi:10.1039/b615085c

Very large acceleration of the photoinduced electron transfer in a Ru(bpy)3-naphthalene bisimide dyad bridged on the naphthyl core

Chem Commun (Camb). 2007 Jan 7:(1):64-6. doi: 10.1039/b615085c. Epub 2006 Nov 22.

Authors

Frédérique Chaignon¹, Magnus Falkenström, Susanne Karlsson, Errol Blart, Fabrice Odobel, Leif Hammarström

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique, UMR 6513 CNRS & FR CNRS 2465, Université de Nantes, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques de Nantes, BP 92208, Nantes Cedex 03, France.

PMID: 17279262
DOI: 10.1039/b615085c

Abstract

By linking a naphthalenebisimide (NBI) unit to [Ru(bpy)3]2+ on the naphthyl core the rate of photoinduced Ru-to-NBI electron transfer was 1000-fold increased compared to the case with a conventional linking on the nitrogen.