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

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

Frédérique Chaignon,^a Magnus Falkenström,^b Susanne Karlsson,^b Errol Blart,^a Fabrice Odobel*^a and Leif Hammarström*^b

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^a Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique, UMR 6513 CNRS & FR CNRS 2465, Université de Nantes, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques de Nantes, BP 92208; 2, rue de la Houssinière, Nantes Cedex 03, France

^b Chemical Physics, Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, Uppsala University, Box 523, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
E-mail: Leif@fotomol.uu.se

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.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B615085C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 17 Oct 2006
Accepted: 08 Nov 2006
First published: 22 Nov 2006

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Chem. Commun., 2007, 64-66

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

F. Chaignon, M. Falkenström, S. Karlsson, E. Blart, F. Odobel and L. Hammarström, Chem. Commun., 2007, 64 DOI: 10.1039/B615085C

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