"Light Switch" Effect Upon Binding of Ru-dppz to Water-Soluble Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Dendrimers
Fude Feng1, Seoung Ho Lee1, Kirk S Schanze1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, United States.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
|August 20, 2015
Abstract:
We report the "light switch" effect of [Ru(bpy)2(dppz)](2+) (where bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine and dppz = dipyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c] phenazine, Ru-dppz) in the presence of anionic conjugated polyelectrolyte dendrimers (CPDs). The metal-to-ligand charge-transfer luminescence from Ru-dppz is efficient in the presence of CPD because the complex is shielded from water by binding to the hydrophobic dendrimer core.
