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EPSRC Reference: GR/L69534/01
Title: NEW ROUTES TO MULTINUCLEAR LUMINESCENT COMPLEXES DISPLAYING PHOTO-INDUCED ENERGY OR ELECTRON TRANSFER
Principal Investigator: Ward, Professor MD
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Department: Chemistry
Organisation: University of Bristol
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 06 April 1998 Ends: 05 October 2001 Value (£): 146,608
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Co-ordination Chemistry
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Two new routes to the preparation of polynuclear photo-active complexes, containing luminescent metal-polypyridyl chromophores attached to quenching groups, will be developed. The first route involves preparation of polypyridyl ligands bearing peripheral hydrogen-bonding substituents (nucleobases), which will allow preparation of a collection of mononuclear building block complexes with pendant hydrogen bonding substituents. Mixing together appropriate building blocks, bearing complementary H-bonding substituents, will allow assembly of polynuclear species in which inter-component photoinduced energy-transfer and electron-transfer could occur. By appropriate choice of building blocks, the nature of the product is easily controlled. The second route involves preparation of polypyridyl ligands with pendant N/O- or N/S-donor macrocycles. Attachment of a luminophore to the polypyridyl site, and any of a wide variety of quenching metal ions at the macrocycle, will allow easy access to a wide variety of chromophore/quencher systems which again could show inter-component photoinduced energy-transfer and electron-transfer. The electrochemical, spectroscopic and luminescence characteristics of the assemblies will be studied in detail.
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