Photochemical and thermal ligand exchange in a ruthenium(II) complex based on a scorpionate terpyridine ligand.
A ruthenium(II) complex containing a 1,10-phenanthroline unit and a terpyridine fragment covalently linked to a benzonitrile group has been synthesised; coordination and decoordination of the benzonitrile group can be induced thermally and photochemically respectively, in an acetone-water mixture.
Schofleld
Emma R
ER
Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minérale, UMR 7513 du CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Faculté de Chimie, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
Collin
Jean-Paul
JP
Gruber
Nathalie
N
Sauvage
Jean-Pierre
JP