The synthesis, structure, and photophysical properties of a new family of trinuclear CuRe(2) chromophore-quencher complexes having the general form [Cu(pyacac)(2)(Re(bpy')(CO)(3))(2)](OTf)(2) (where pyacac = 3-(4-pyridyl)-acetylacetonate and bpy' = 4,4'-5,5'-tetramethyl-2,2'-bipyridine (tmb, 1), 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine (dmb, 2), 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy, 3), 4,4'-dichloro-2,2'-bipyridine (dcl...

Two novel heteroleptic sensitizers, Ru((4,4-dicarboxylic acid-2,2'-bipyridine)(4,4'-bis(p-hexyloxystyryl)-2,2-bipyridine)(NCS)2 and Ru((4,4-dicarboxylic acid-2,2'-bipyridine)(4,4'-bis(p-methoxystyryl)-2,2'-bipyridine) (NCS)2, coded as K-19 and K-73, respectively, have been synthesized and characterized by 1H NMR, FTIR, UV-vis absorption, and emission spectroscopy and excited-state lifetime and ...

Variable-temperature emission data over the range 90-298 K have been collected for a series of bipyridyl complexes of RuII. Spectra obtained for [Ru(dmb)3] (dmb ) 4,4′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine), [Ru(dpb)3] (dpb ) 4,4′diphenyl-2,2′-bipyridine), [Ru(dotb)3] (dotb ) 4,4′-di-o-tolyl-2,2′-bipyridine), and [Ru(dmesb)3] (dmesb ) 4,4′-dimesityl-2,2′-bipyridine) in 4:1 EtOH/MeOH show similar trends in t...

The crystal structure of the title compound, (C(10)H(9)N(2))(2)[Mn(2)(C(10)H(8)N(2))(3)(H(2)O)(8)](C(8)H(3)O(7)S)(2)·C(10)H(8)N(2)·15H(2)O, consists of dinuclear Mn(II) complex cations, sulfonato-benzene-dicarboxyl-ate trianions, 4-(4-pyridyl)pyridinium cations, uncoordin-ated 4,4'-bipyridine and uncoordinated water mol-ecules. One 4,4'-bipyridine mol-ecule bridges two Mn atoms, forming a centr...

To elucidate the role of zinc-bound water in liver alcohol dehydrogenase catalysis, chelation by 1,10-phenanthroline and 2,2-bipyridine was studied. The rate constants for association of both chelating agents to the active center zinc were pH-dependent with a pKa of 9.2 and preferential binding to a protonated form. The binary complex dissociation rate constants were pH-independent for both che...

This report describes the dimerisation of glutathione, and by extension, other cysteine-containing peptides or protein fragments, with a 5, 5'-disubstituted-2, 2'-bipyridine or 6, 6"-disubstituted-2, 2':6',2"-terpyridine unit. The resulting bipy-GS2 and terpy-GS2 were investigated as potential metal ion dependent switches in aqueous solution, and were found to predominantly adopt the transoïd c...

Using copper complexes with an axially chiral bipyridine ligand C4-ACBP as the catalyst, an enantioselective functionalization of indoles with diazo compounds was developed with up to 95% ee. This protocol paves the way for further applications of these ligands.

Cooperativity is a general feature of intermolecular interactions in biomolecular systems, but there are many different facets of the phenomenon that are not well understood. Positive cooperativity stabilizes a system as progressively more interactions are added, and the origin of the beneficial free energy may be entropic or enthalpic in origin. An "enthalpic chelate effect" has been proposed ...

Six new heteroleptic Ru(II) complexes (MC118, MC120-123 and MC126), of general formula Ru(L1)(L2)(NCS)2, where L1 and L2 are respectively dicarboxylated and π-conjugated functionalized (dissymmetric) bipyridine ligands, were designed, synthesized and applied as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells. These complexes were characterized both experimentally and theoretically, showing promising ...