Issue 6, 2023

Ultrafast spectroscopy of RuII polypyridine complexes in the gas phase and the liquid phase: [Ru(2,2′-bipyridine)2(nicotinamide)2]2+

Abstract

[Ru(bipyridine)2(nicotinamide)2]2+ (1) and its monoaqua-complex [Ru(bipyridine)2(nicotinamide)(H2O)]2+ (2) were spectroscopically studied for the first time in the gas phase by static and time resolved UV photodissociation spectroscopy, observing nicotinamide and H2O ligand dissociation for 1 and 2, respectively. Both processes and their ultrafast dynamics were investigated in parallel by transient absorption spectroscopy in aqueous solution. The latter data were newly acquired for the long-wavelength MLCT band excitation of 1 and provide novel ultrafast ligand dissociation results for 2, confirming the gas phase results, i.e., exclusive H2O cleavage over nicotinamide loss. Similar apparent time constants in the sub-ps and few ps ranges were obtained for 1 in both phases, whereas a larger time constant of ca. two hundreds of ps for the ground state recovery was observed exclusively in the solution phase. Our reaction scheme accounts for faster dissociation dynamics in the gas phase by energetical lowering of the 3MC vs. the 3MLCT states by lack of solvent stabilization of the latter. Based on the apparent time constants, we favour, for the solution dynamics, a fast bimodal vibrational deactivation in the 3MLCT/3MC manifolds and a slow dissociation obfuscated by the ground state recovery. This is substantiated by a similar reaction scheme proposed for the ultrafast dynamics of 2, resulting in a new assignment for transient absorption features with λ > 550 nm to the 3MC manifold, and a common kinetic description for 1 and 2. Computations at the TD-DFT/cc-PVTZ/MDF28 level support our spectroscopic findings and the suggested deactivation pathways.

Graphical abstract: Ultrafast spectroscopy of RuII polypyridine complexes in the gas phase and the liquid phase: [Ru(2,2′-bipyridine)2(nicotinamide)2]2+

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Aug 2022
Accepted
08 Jan 2023
First published
09 Jan 2023

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023,25, 4899-4914

Ultrafast spectroscopy of RuII polypyridine complexes in the gas phase and the liquid phase: [Ru(2,2′-bipyridine)2(nicotinamide)2]2+

L. Schüssler, R. G. E. Israil, P. Hütchen, W. R. Thiel, R. Diller and C. Riehn, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, 25, 4899 DOI: 10.1039/D2CP03765C

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