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A Novel Technique for Generating and Observing Chemiluminescence in a Biological Setting
Published on: March 9, 2017
Near-infrared luminescence from platinum(II) diimine compounds
Christopher J Adams1, Natalie Fey, Julia A Weinstein
1School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K. chcja@bris.ac.uk
Abstract:
Square-planar Pt(II) complexes of the bis(mesitylimino)acenaphthene (mesBIAN) ligand are emissive from a MMLL'CT excited state in a dichloromethane solution at room temperature. Investigation of the nature of the frontier orbitals in these near-IR emitters by a combination of emission spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, and density functional theory calculations suggests that emission is enabled by the presence of low-lying ligand pi* orbitals on the mesBIAN.
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