Fayad, Remi and Engl, Sebastian and Danilov, Evgeny O. and Hauke, Cory E. and Reiser, Oliver and Castellano, Felix N. (2020) Direct Evidence of Visible Light-Induced Homolysis in Chlorobis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II). JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 11 (13). pp. 5345-5349. ISSN 1948-7185,
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Developments in the field of photoredox catalysis that leveraged the long-lived excited states of Ir(III) and Ru(II) photosensitizers to enable radical coupling processes paved the way for explorations of synthetic transformations that would otherwise remain unrealized. While first row transition metal photocatalysts have not been as extensively investigated, valuable synthetic transformations covering broad scopes of olefin functionalization have been recently reported featuring photoactivated chlorobis(phenanthroline) Cu(II) complexes. In this study, the photochemical processes underpinning the catalytic activity of [Cu-(dmp)(2)Cl]Cl (dmp = 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline) were studied. The combined results from static spectroscopic measurements and conventional photochemistry, ultrafast transient absorption, and electron paramagnetic resonance spin trapping experiments strongly support blue light (lambda(ex) = 427 or 470 nm)induced Cu-Cl homolytic bond cleavage in [Cu(dmp)(2)Cl](+) occurring in <100 fs. On the basis of electronic structure calculations, this bond-breaking photochemistry corresponds to the Cl -> Cu(II) ligand-to-metal charge transfer transition, unmasking a Cu(I) species [Cu(dmp)(2)](+) and a Cl atom, thereby serving as a departure point for both Cu(I)- or Cu(II)-based photoredox transformations. No net photochemistry was observed through direct excitation of the ligand-field transitions in the red (lambda(ex) = 785 or 800 nm), and all combined experiments indicated no evidence of Cu-Cl bond cleavage under these conditions. The underlying visible light-induced homolysis of a metal-ligand bond yielding a one-electron-reduced photosensitizer and a radical species may form the basis for novel transformations initiated by photoinduced homolysis featuring in situ-formed metal-substrate adducts utilizing first row transition metal complexes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CHLORINE ATOMS; EXCITED-STATE; ACETONITRILE; COMPLEXES; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences |
| Divisions: | Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Organische Chemie > Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Oliver Reiser |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2021 10:43 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2021 10:43 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/44247 |
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