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Self-Assembled Tetrahedral [CrIII4L6 ]12+ Cage Displaying Near-Infrared Spin-Flip Photoluminescence

Published inInorganic chemistry, vol. 63, no. 50, p. 23886-23893
Publication date2024-12-16
First online date2024-11-28
Abstract

The thermodynamically controlled self-assembly of bis-bidentate quaterpyridine ligand, L = 2,2':5',5″:2″,2‴-quaterpyridine, with CrII and subsequent oxidation to CrIII yields the first photoluminescent tetrahedral [CrIII 4 L6 ]12+ molecular cage. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals the presence of two homochiral cages (ΛΛΛΛ and ΔΔΔΔ) in the unit cell that crystallize as a racemic mixture. Additionally, a PF6 anion is observed inside the cavity, in line with isostructural cages built with NiII or FeII . Each corner of the polyhedron is occupied by weakly antiferromagnetically coupled {Cr(bipy)3 }3+ (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine) patterns, as revealed by magnetometry. Upon light excitation in the UV-vis region, spin-flip luminescence from the 2 E/2 T1 excited states with a maximum at 727 nm (13755 cm-1 ) was detected at room temperature. The measured excited state lifetime of 183 μs is longer than the 102 μs recorded for the mononuclear [Cr(bipy)3 ]3+ complex under anaerobic conditions, whereas the luminescence quantum yields are in the same order of magnitude and amount to 10-2 %. The photoluminescence brightness, B , calculated using the maxima of the absorption spectra for both species, goes from 14 M-1 ·cm-1 for the mononuclear compound to 90 M-1 ·cm-1 for the tetrahedral cage. This 6-fold improvement is observed across the entire excitation wavelength range, and it is due to the incorporation of four light-harvester units in the molecular cage.

Keywords
  • Chromium
  • Spin-flip
  • Cage
  • Metallosupramolecular
  • Luminescence
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YE, Yating et al. Self-Assembled Tetrahedral [CrIII4L6 ]12+ Cage Displaying Near-Infrared Spin-Flip Photoluminescence. In: Inorganic chemistry, 2024, vol. 63, n° 50, p. 23886–23893. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c04180
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