Photoactive Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States in 3d6 Complexes with Cr0, MnI, FeII, and CoIII

N Sinha, OS Wenger - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many coordination complexes and organometallic compounds with the 4d6 and 5d6
valence electron configurations have outstanding photophysical and photochemical …

Charge‐transfer and spin‐flip states: Thriving as complements

WR Kitzmann, K Heinze - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal complexes with photoactive charge‐transfer excited states are pervasive
throughout the literature. In particular,[Ru (bpy) 3] 2+(bpy= 2, 2′‐bipyridine), with its metal …

Stable Molybdenum (0) carbonyl complex for upconversion and photoredox catalysis

WR Kitzmann, MS Bertrams, P Boden… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photoactive complexes with earth-abundant metals have attracted increasing interest in the
recent years fueled by the promise of sustainable photochemistry. However, sophisticated …

Direct evidence for excited ligand field state-based oxidative photoredox chemistry of a cobalt (III) polypyridyl photosensitizer

MM Alowakennu, A Ghosh… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Increasing interest in sustainable chemistry coupled with the quest to explore new reactivity
has spurred research on first-row transition metal complexes for potential applications in a …

Molecular Design Principles to Elongate the Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited-State Lifetimes of Square-Planar Nickel (II) Complexes

T Ogawa, N Sinha, B Pfund, A Prescimone… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Square-planar NiII complexes and their electronically excited states play key roles in cross-
coupling catalysis and could offer new opportunities to complement well-known …

The Nephelauxetic Effect Becomes an Important Design Factor for Photoactive First‐Row Transition Metal Complexes

N Sinha, P Yaltseva, OS Wenger - … Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The expansion of d‐orbitals as a result of metal‐ligand bond covalence, the so‐called
nephelauxetic effect, is a well‐established concept of coordination chemistry, yet its …

Zinc (II) complexes with triplet charge-transfer excited states enabling energy-transfer catalysis, photoinduced electron transfer, and upconversion

JA Kübler, B Pfund, OS Wenger - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many CuI complexes have luminescent triplet charge-transfer excited states with diverse
applications in photophysics and photochemistry, but for isoelectronic ZnII compounds, this …

Luminescence and Excited-State Reactivity in a Heteroleptic Tricyanido Fe (III) Complex

Y Ye, P Garrido-Barros, J Wellauer… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Harnessing sunlight via photosensitizing molecules is key for novel optical applications and
solar-to-chemical energy conversion. Exploiting abundant metals such as iron is attractive …

Electronic Structures and Photoredox Chemistry of Tungsten (0) Arylisocyanides

AT Barth, J Fajardo Jr, W Sattler… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The high energy barriers associated with the reaction chemistry of inert
substrates can be overcome by employing redox-active photocatalysts. Research in this …

LNL-Carbazole Pincer Ligand: More than the Sum of Its Parts

G Kleinhans, AJ Karhu, H Boddaert, S Tanweer… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The utility of carbazole in photo-, electro-, and medicinal applications has ensured its
widespread use also as the backbone in tridentate pincer ligands. In this review, the aim is …