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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 128, Issue 5, Pages 1513-1522Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0552139
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We have prepared and characterized a series of multimetallic oligomers of Ru using the pi-conjugatecl bridging ligand tetra-2-pyridyl-1,4-pyrazine (tppz), as well as mixed-ligand complexes with terpyridine end caps, and analyzed their electrochemical and spectroscopic properties, comparing them with modern computational electronic structure methods. The results suggest that the high degree of metal-metal interunit communication in these linear oligomers yields low HOMO-LUMO gaps, high delocalization, and the onset of quasi-band features, all indicative that these compounds should be excellent molecular wire materials. Recent spectroscopic and excited-state analyses of these and related compounds focus on optically accessible states, which ignore optically silent frontier electronic states more relevant to nanoelectronic applications.
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