title: Structural tuning of ligand-based two-electron intervalence charge transfer.
abstract: The lowest-energy optical transition of two-electron-oxidized porphyrinogens [L(Delta)M] is a ligand-based charge transfer. The color of the intermediary, two-electron mixed-valent oxidation state shifts from vermilion (lambdamax = 480 nm) to yellow (lambdamax = 270 nm) upon increasing the ionic radius of the central metal dication from Mg2+ to Zn2+ and Ca2+. Structural, spectroscopic, and computational studies establish that the relative energies of the highest occupied and lowest unoccupied orbitals, between which the intervalence charge-transfer optical transition occurs, are modulated by the molecular dipole moment, which in turn depends on the only structural variable among the [L(Delta)M] compounds, the position of M2+ relative to the dianionic dipyrrole unit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139-4207, USA.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bachmann
authors.forename: Daniel G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Nocera