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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 19, Pages 5798-5804Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02477
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In this Letter, we present first-principles evidence that several higher-lying excited states are responsible for the emission spectrum of [M(CO)4(bpy)] (M = Cr, Mo, W and bpy = 2,2'-bipyrimidine) complexes. These results highlight the violation of Kashas rule, which states that after irradiation, molecules emit light with appreciable yield only from their lowest energy excited state. Furthermore, in [W(CO)4(bpy)] and [Mo(CO)4(bpy)], the breaking of Kashas rule is two-fold because at least two different excited states besides T1 are involved in emission. To our knowledge, these are the first transition-metal complexes unambiguously demonstrated to display simultaneous equilibrated and nonequilibrated anti-Kasha emissions. This work also highlights the complexity of the emissive processes of tetracarbonyl-diimine transition-metal complexes, which are controlled via a subtle interplay of electronic and geometrical effects along the excited-state deactivation dynamics.
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