Spectral and electrochemical properties of mono-, bi-, and tetranuclear cyclopalladized complexes based on 2-(2-thienyl)pyridine and 2-phenylpyridine with pyridine and 4,4′-bipyridyl

Abstract

Mono-, bi-, and tetranuclear cyclopalladized complexes based on 2-(2-thienyl)pyridine and 2-phenylpyridine with pyridine and 4,4′-bipyridyl were prepared and characterized by the methods of 1H NMR, electron absorption and emission spectroscopy, and also by the voltammetry method. The values of the coordination-induced shifts of proton in the ligands of the complexes were determined; the upfield displacement of chemical shifts of protons of the cyclopalladized ligand nearest to the metal was assigned to the anisotropic action of a ring current of the pyridine rings orthogonal to the coordination plane in 4,4′-bipyridyl and pyridine. Long-wave absorption bands of the complexes were assigned to the spin-allowed optical d-π charge-transfer transitions, and the bands of the low-temperature phosphorescence, to the intraligand π-πNyyC* transitions. Three waves of the reduction of the complexes were assigned to the ligand-centered processes of successive electron transfer on π* orbitals preferentially localized on coordinated pyridine and cyclopalladized ligands.