894106-05-9Relevant articles and documents
p-carborane: A new cage spacer for photoactive metal polypyridine dyads
Ghirotti, Marco,Schwab, Peter F. H.,Indelli, M. Teresa,Chiorboli, Claudio,Scandola, Franco
, p. 4331 - 4333 (2006)
The first example of a binuclear ruthenium complex involving the p-carborane framework in the bridging ligand is reported. The bridging ligand is a symmetric linear array comprising a central p-carborane unit, two p-phenylene spacers, and two 5-yl-2,2′-bipyridine coordinating units. A homobinuclear RuII complex, with 2,2′-bipyridine as peripheral ligands, was synthesized and characterized. The RuII-RuIII mixed-valence species, obtained by partial oxidation, has been investigated with steady-state and time-resolved techniques in CH3CN. The rate of photoinduced electron transfer is 2.3 × 108 s-1.