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pulse used were all gaussians truncated at the 1% level.
Durations of the shaped pulses were kept as short as
possible.
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2.3. Syntheses of complexes
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2.3.1. [Ru(tpy)(acac)Cl ] (1) (blue grey)
2
The synthesis was adapted from a literature proce-
dure [3]. Ethanol (150 ml) was added to Ru(tpy)Cl3
(440 mg, 1.0 mmol). The apparatus was flushed with Ar,
then triethylamine (1.5 ml, 11 mmol) and acetylacetone
(acac) (0.5 ml, 5 mmol) were added using a plastic sy-
ringe. Upon addition, the dark brown solution turned a
deep red. The solution was heated under reflux for 4 h.
The resulting violet solution was evaporated to dryness
to leave a dark green solid. Dichloromethane (100 ml)
was added and the solution was then stirred under Ar
for 10 min, before being filtered through Celite and
washed with dichloromethane until the filtrate was clear.
The solution was concentrated (ꢀ30 ml) and hexane
(50 ml) was added to it to precipitate the final product of
[Ru(tpy)(acac)Cl] which was then filtered and washed
consecutively with hexane, water and diethyl ether be-
fore being air dried (0.289 g, 61.6%). NMR 1H (CD2Cl2
d ¼ 5:35): 8.72 (2H, d, 5.6 Hz), 8.16 (2H, d, 8.1 Hz), 8.09
(2H, d, 7.9 Hz), 7.84 (2H, ddd, 7.5, 6.3 and 1.7 Hz),
7.53–7.54 (2H, dd, 5.6 and 1.4 Hz and 1H, dd, 7.5 and
8.1 Hz), 5.40 (1H, s), 2.49 (3H, s), 1.27 (3H, s). Anal.
Calcd. (%) for C20H18ClN3O2Ru ꢁ 1/2(CH2Cl2): C, 48.1;
H, 3.6; N, 8.5. Found: C, 48.7; H, 3.6; N, 8.5.
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C
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Scheme 1. Schematic drawing of [Ru(tpy)(acac)(PPh4cyd)]þ.
recorded in KBr pellets on a Perkin–Elmer FT-IR 1725.
UV–Vis electronic spectra were obtained with a Shi-
madzu UV-3100. Cyclic voltammograms were obtained
with an Autolab system (PGSTAT100) (0.1 M tetrabu-
tylammonium hexafluorophosphate, TBAH as sup-
porting electrolyte) at 25 °C. A three electrode cell was
used comprising a 1 mm Pt-disk working electrode, a Pt
wire auxiliary electrode, and an aqueous saturated cal-
omel (SCE) reference electrode. NMR spectra were re-
corded on a Bruker AMX400 spectrometer equipped
with a 5 mm triple resonance inverse probe with dedi-
cated 31P channel operating at 400.13 MHz for 1H,
161.97 MHz for 31P and 100.61 MHz for 13C. All
chemical shifts for 1H and 13C are relative to TMS using
1H (residual) or 13C chemical shifts of the solvent as a
secondary standard. H, 13C {1H}, 13C {1H, 31P} and
31P {1H} spectra were recorded at 293 K in CD2Cl2.
Signal assignments were made with the aid of gradi-
ent-enhanced H COSY45. H–13C correlation spectra
using a gradient-enhanced HMQC sequence (delay was
optimized for JCH of 140 Hz) was obtained with 40
scans per increment. A gradient-enhanced HMBC ex-
periment was performed allowing 62.5 ms for long-range
coupling evolution (176 scans were accumulated). All
2D experiments were realized with phosphorus selective
decoupling. Typically, 2048 t2 data points were collected
for 256 t1 increments. The FID along t1 was zero-filled
to 512 points prior to Fourier transformation.
1D selective DPFGSE-NOE [7] were obtained with a
mixing time of 800 ms. Gradients were sine shaped in all
experiments with durations of 1 or 1.7 ms. The selective
2.3.2. [Ru(tpy)(acac)Ipcyd] (2) (dark blue)
An ethanol/water mixture (200:40 ml) was added to 1
(393 mg, 0.83 mmol), and the blue solution was then
degassed for 10 min, before AgBF4 (486 mg, 2.5 mmol)
was added, at which the solution turned green. The so-
lution was left at reflux for 4 h. The solution was al-
lowed to cool down before being filtered through Celite
and washed with ethanol. The solution was then con-
centrated before being degassed. IpcydH (1.68 g, 6.88
mmol) was added to the solution, and it was then left
under Ar at 40 °C for 48 h, after which the solution was
then allowed to cool before being evaporated to dryness.
This was then dissolved in dichloromethane and was
purified using column chromatography (acidic alumina,
solvent: dichloromethane, eluent: 1% ethanol:dichlo-
romethane). The column produced nine bands, the first
was a pale yellow, corresponding to the free ligand, the
second was a pale violet/pink, followed by a white band.
After this was a dark blue band, then another white
band followed by a violet band, a dark blue, a pale blue
and a red band. The first dark blue band was collected
and then evaporated to dryness to yield a lacquer of 2
1
1
1
1
1
(120 mg, 25%). NMR H (CD2Cl2 d ¼ 5:35): 8.70 (2H,
d, 5.6 Hz), 8.15 (2H, d, 8.1 Hz), 8.08 (2H, d, 8.1 Hz),
7.90 (2H, ddd, 8.1, 7.5 and 1.5 Hz), 7.60–7.52 (2H, dd,