Ruthenium(II) complexes based on tridentate polypyridine ligands that feature long-lived room-temperature luminescence

Giulio Ragazzon; Peter Verwilst; Sergey A Denisov; Alberto Credi; Gediminas Jonusauskas; Nathan D McClenaghan

doi:10.1039/c3cc45387a

Ruthenium(II) complexes based on tridentate polypyridine ligands that feature long-lived room-temperature luminescence

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Oct 14;49(80):9110-2. doi: 10.1039/c3cc45387a. Epub 2013 Aug 29.

Authors

Giulio Ragazzon¹, Peter Verwilst, Sergey A Denisov, Alberto Credi, Gediminas Jonusauskas, Nathan D McClenaghan

Affiliation

¹ Univ. Bordeaux/CNRS, ISM, 351 cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence cedex, France. n.mc-clenaghan@ism.u-bordeaux1.fr.

PMID: 23989237
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc45387a

Abstract

Integrating a matched organic chromophore and a Ru(II) complex with optimized tridentate polypyridine ligands instils reversible electronic energy transfer giving an unusually long room temperature luminescence lifetime (42 μs) without compromising the emission quantum yield.