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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 51, Issue 7, Pages 4015-4019Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic2020868
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- NSF of China [90922013, 90922035]
- 973 program [2011CBA00505]
- CAS [KJCX2.YW.M10]
- NSF of Fujian Province [2008I0026, 2008F3115, 2011J06006]
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Photochromism of N-methyl-4,4'-bipyridinium (MQ(+)) salts and their metal complexes has never been reported. A series of MQ(+) coordinated halozinc complexes [(MQ)ZnX3] (X = Cl (1), Br (2), I (3)) and [(MQ)ZnCl1.53I1.47](2)(MQ)ZnCl1.68I1.32 (4), with better physicochemical stability than halide salts of the MQ(+) cation, have been found to exhibit different photochromic behaviors. Compounds 1-3 are isostructural, but only 1 and 2 show photochromism. Introduction of partial Cl atoms to nonphotochromic compound 3 yields compound 4, which also displays photochromism. The photochromic response of 1, 2, and 4 indicates the presence of their long-lived charge separation states, which originate from X -> MQ(+) electron transfer according to ESR and XPS measurements. Studies on the influence of different coordinated halogen atoms demonstrate that the Cl atom may be a more suitable electron donor than Br and I atoms to design redox photochromic metal complexes.
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