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Dendrimers with a Copper(I) Bis(phenanthroline) Core: Synthesis, Electronic Properties, and Kinetics
Gumienna-Kontecka, Elzbieta,Rio, Yannick,Bourgogne, Cyril,Elhabiri, Mourad,Louis, Remy,Albrecht-Gary, Anne-Marie,Nierengarten, Jean-Francois
, p. 3200 - 3209 (2004)
The copper(I) bis(chelate) complex Cu(L0)2 has been prepared from 2,9-diphenethyl-1,10-phenanthroline and Cu(CH3CN)4BF4. Derivative Cu(L0)2 has been characterized by NMR, UV-vis spectroscopy, and X-ray crystallography. Interestingly, owing to the presence of the ethylene linker, the interligand π-π stacking interactions between the phenyl rings and the phenanthroline subunits in Cu(L0) 2 do not induce significant distortions of the pseudotetrahedral symmetry around the Cu(I) center in the solid state or in solution. Following the synthesis of Cu(L0)2 dendrimers Cu(L 1-4)2 with a Cu(I) bis(2,9-diphenethyl-1,10-phenanthroline) core surrounded by Frechet type dendritic branches have been prepared and the kinetics of their cyanide-assisted demetalation studied. Importantly, the surrounding dendritic wedges have no significant influence on the coordination geometry of the Cu(I) center, as deduced from their absorption spectra. Therefore, the variations of the rate constants only reflect changes resulting from the presence of the dendritic branches. The kinetics of the cyanide-mediated demetalation reaction indeed revealed that cyanide diffusion through the dendritic shell is slightly influenced by the size of the branches. Significant effects were observed in the kinetics when going from the third to the fourth generation and have been ascribed to changes in the lipophilicity around the metallic core as a result of dendritic encapsulation.
Thin layer cyclic voltammetry: An efficient tool to determine the redox characteristics of large dendrimers
Rio, Yannick,Accorsi, Gianluca,Armaroli, Nicola,Felder, Delphine,Levillain, Eric,Nierengarten, Jean-Francois
, p. 2830 - 2831 (2007/10/03)
Dendrimers with an electroactive bis(phenanthroline) copper(I) core have been prepared and thin layer cyclic voltammetry (TLCV) found to be an efficient tool to determine their redox characteristics in spite of the slow electron transfer kinetics observed
