Substituent Effects on the Fluorescence Properties of ortho‐Carbor­anes: Unusual Emission Behaviour in C‐(2′‐Pyridyl)‐ortho‐carboranes1. Issue 3 (4th January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Böhling, Lena; Brockhinke, Andreas; Kahlert, Jan; Weber, Lothar; Harder, Rachel A.; Yufit, Dmitry S.; Howard, Judith A. K.; MacBride, J. A. Hugh; Fox, Mark A.
• Is Part Of: European journal of inorganic chemistry. Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 403
• Page End: 412
• Publication Date: 2016-01-04
• Subjects: Carboranes -- Pyridines -- Photophysics -- Cyclic voltammetry -- C–C bond elongation; Chemistry, Inorganic -- Periodicals; Organometallic chemistry -- Periodicals; Bioinorganic chemistry -- Periodicals; Solid state chemistry -- Periodicals; 546
• DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201501284
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1434-1948

Abstract

Abstract: Seventeen compounds including the parent ortho ‐, meta ‐ and para ‐carboranes and derivatives of ortho ‐carborane were investigated for luminescence in cyclohexane and dichloromethane solutions. Fifteen of these carboranes revealed very weak emissions in the 285–493 nm range. These carboranes may arguably be viewed as non‐emissive in solutions at room temperatures. No emissions could be observed for 1, 2‐dimethyl‐ ortho ‐carborane and 2‐methyl‐1‐phenyl‐ ortho ‐carborane. The carboranes with a 2′‐pyridyl substituent at the cluster carbon atom gave unusual local and charge‐transfer emissions indicating that different excited states are generated on photoexcitation. Of all the carboranes investigated, only 2‐(diphenylphosphino)‐1‐phenyl‐ ortho ‐carborane, 1, 2‐diphenyl‐ ortho ‐carborane and 1‐phenyl‐2‐(2′‐pyridyl)‐ ortho ‐carborane are luminescent in the solid state with emissions at 476–612 nm and large Stokes shifts of 12000–13600 cm –1 . The solid‐state structures of 1, 2‐bis(2′‐pyridyl)‐ and 1‐phenyl‐2‐(2′‐pyridyl)‐ ortho ‐carborane were determined by X‐ray crystallography. Abstract : Only three out of fifteen ortho ‐carboranes in this photophysical study are luminescent in the solid state. 1‐Phenyl‐2‐(2′‐pyridyl)‐, 1, 2‐diphenyl‐ and 2‐(diphenylphosphino)‐1‐phenyl‐ ortho ‐carborane show emission maxima at 476, 537 and 612 nm, respectively. Remarkably, the solution‐state emission of the pyridylcarborane is at 329 nm in cyclohexane but at 442 nm in dichloromethane.