Room temperature and low-temperature absorption and emission spectra of some polypyridylruthenium(II) 3.2.1 complexes

Abstract

Electronic absorption and luminescence spectra are reported for a series of complexes of type [Ru(tpy)(L–L)(py)]2+, where tpy and py are 2,2′,2″-terpyridine and pyridine, and L–L represents the bidentate ligands bipyridyl, 4,4′-dimethylbipyridyl, 4-nitrobipyridyl, oxalate and acetylacetonate. The effect of solvent polarity and temperature on their spectral and light emission properties is studied. Energies are reported for the lowest-energy 3MLCT∗ excited state, and on the basis of these it is suggested that the complexes may make good triplet energy acceptors for use in organic and polymeric light emitting devices.