Photoactivated Em5-i Complex Synthesis

Example 10

Complex Mixture Em5-i:

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A solution of 0.60 g of Em5-s complex mixture in 200 ml of 3-methoxypropionitril is irradiated with a blacklight blue lamp at room temperature for 7 h (Osram, L18W/73, λ_max=370-380 nm). The solvent is removed under reduced pressure. The residue is carefully washed with methanol. This gives 0.10 g of Em5-i as a pale yellow powder (17%, again mixture of two cyclometalation isomers).

MS (Maldi):

m/e=1110 (M+H)⁺

Photoluminescence (in a film, 2% in PMMA):

λ_max=456,487 nm, CIE: (0.20; 0.34)

The photoluminescence quantum yield of the isomerized Em5-i complex mixture has 1.50 times the quantum yield of the Em5-s complex mixture.