文摘
A series of sulfur-substituted dppz-based ligands and their Re(I)(CO)3Cl complexes are reported. The sulfur-substituted ligands and complexes show interesting electronic properties atypical of dppz-type systems. Substitution of dppz with thiocyanate (SCN) groups results in behavior typical of an electron withdrawing group. However, substitution of dppz with the electron donating trithiocarbonate (S2CS) or deca-alkylthioether (Sdec) groups confer intraligand charge-transfer (ICT) from the S adduct to the phenazine lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). Upon complexation of the substituted dppz ligand to Re(CO)3Cl this ICT red-shifts and increases in intensity. Analysis of these observations using density functional theory (DFT) calculations and resonance Raman spectroscopy reveals that these transitions are a mixture of metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) and S → phenazine ICT in nature. The synthesized compounds are also characterized using 1H NMR spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, and electrochemistry. Single-crystal X-ray analysis was performed on dppz(SCN)2 (C20H18N6S2 a = 8.780 Å, b = 9.792 Å, c = 10.400 Å, α = 95.95°, β = 112.13°, γ = 95.38°, triclinic, P, Z = 2, R1 = 0.0306, wR2 = 0.0829.