Abstract
The photoactivated drug usage in anti-cancer therapy, the working mechanism of which doesn’t rely on the formation of reactive oxygen species, allows reducing damage to healthy tissue by controlling toxicity. For instance, light-activated Rh(III) complexes show nuclease activity after irradiation with UV and visible light. However, literature analysis shows a lack of descriptions of basic photochemical mechanisms. Here we report the study of cis-[Rh(dppz)(phen)Cl2]Cl (DPPZPHEN, dppz is dipyrido[3,2-a:2′,3′-c]phenazine, phen is 1,10-phenanthroline) photochemistry in water solutions using stationary photolysis, nanosecond laser flash photolysis and ultrafast pump–probe spectroscopy. After the irradiation with 308 nm light, DPPZPHEN undergoes aquation, which results in the substitution of one chloride ligand by a water molecule and leads to the formation of [Rh(dppz)(phen)(H2O)Cl]Cl2. UV–vis spectra of complex and capillary electrophoresis data were collected and discussed. Laser flash photolysis (355 nm) demonstrates intermediate absorption attributed to the lowest electronic excited state (triplet) of the initial complex. The study of primary photophysical processes showed a rather complicated behavior of transient absorption, which could be described by a set of four exponential functions. The early photophysical processes were described by the scheme including the formation of two excited states of different natures, namely a dppz-based IL state and an LMCT state.
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