Ruthenium-(II)/-(III) terpyridine complexes incorporating imine functionalities. Synthesis, structure, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties
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Abstract
A new class of ruthenium terpyridine complexes of the type [RuII(trpy)(L1–6)Cl] 1–6 (trpy = 2, 2′∶6′, 2′′-terpyridine; L1–3 = o-−OC6H3(R)C(R′)NCH2C6H5 and L4–6 = o-−OC6H3(R)CH(R′)N
NC6H5; where R = H or p-NO2 and R′ = H or CH3) have been synthesized. The “free”
NNHC6H5 (HL4–6) have undergone
) distortion parameters as well as the energies of the two expected