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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 142, Issue 12, Pages 5549-5555Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c01503
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- F.R.S.-FNRS
- UCLouvain
- Prix Pierre et Colette Bauchau
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences BES [DE-SC0001011]
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Higher nuclearity photosensitizers produced dehalogenation yields greater than 90% in the reported [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+)-mediated dehalogenation of 4-bromobenzyl-2-chloro-2-phenylacetate to 4-bromobenzyl-2-phenylacetate with orange light in 7 h, whereas after 72 h yields of 49% were obtained with [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+). Dinuclear (D1), trinuclear (T1), and quadrinuclear (Q1) ruthenium(II) 2,2'- bipyridine based photosensitizers were synthesized, characterized, and investigated for their photoreactivity. Three main factors were shown to lead to increased yields (i) the red-shifted absorbance of polynuclear photosensitizers, (ii) the more favorable driving force for electron transfer, characterized by more positive E-1/2(Ru2+*/+), and (iii) the smaller population of the (MC)-M-3 state (<0.5% for D1, T1 and Q1 vs 48% for [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) at room temperature). Collectively, these results highlight the potential advantages of using polynuclear photosensitizers in phototriggered redox catalysis reactions.
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