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Stanislav Zális1, Monika Sieger, Stefan Greulich
1J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejskova 3, CZ-18223 Prague, Czech Republic. stanislav.zalis@jh-inst.cas.cz
Abstract:
Replacement of 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy) by substituted 1,4-diazabutadiene (R-DAB) alpha-diimine ligands N empty set N leads to a substantial hypsochromic shift of about 0.8 eV for the long-wavelength absorption band in compounds (N empty set N)Ir(C(5)Me(5)) but to a bathochromic absorption shift of about 0.4 eV for the complex ions [(N empty set N)IrCl(C(5)Me(5))](+). DFT calculations on model complexes based on experimental (R-DAB compounds) and geometry-optimized structures (bpy systems) reveal that the low-energy transitions of the cationic chloro complexes are largely of ligand-to-ligand charge-transfer character L'LCT (L = alpha-diimine, L' = Cl) whereas the neutral compounds exhibit pi --> pi transitions between the considerably mixed metal d(pi) and alpha-diimine pi orbitals. The much more pronounced metal-ligand orbital interaction for the R-DAB complexes causes the qualitatively different shifts on replacing the stronger basic bpy by the better pi-acceptors R-DAB. Only the LUMO of the neutral compounds is destabilized on replacement of bpy by R-DAB whereas the LUMO of [(N empty set N)IrCl(C(5)R'(5))](+) and both HOMOs are stabilized through this change.
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