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On the Possible Coordination on a 3MC State Itself? Mechanistic Investigation Using DFT-Based Methods

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Understanding light-induced ligand exchange processes is key to the design of efficient light-releasing prodrugs or photochemically driven functional molecules. Previous mechanistic investigations had highlighted the pivotal role of metal-centered (MC) excited states in the initial ligand loss step. The question remains whether they are equally important in the subsequent ligand capture step. This article reports the mechanistic study of direct acetonitrile coordination onto a 3 MC state of [Ru(bpy)3] 2+ , leading to [Ru(bpy)2(κ 1-bpy)(NCMe)] 2+ in a 3 MLCT (metal-to-ligand charge transfer) state. Coordination of MeCN is indeed accompanied by the decoordination of one pyridine ring of a bpy ligand. As estimated from Nudged Elastic Band calculations, the energy barrier along the minimum energy path is 20 kcal/mol. Interestingly, the orbital analysis conducted along the reaction path has shown that creation of the metallic vacancy can be achieved by reverting the energetic ordering of key dσ* and bpy-based π* orbitals, resulting in the change of electronic configuration from 3 MC to 3 MLCT. The approach of the NCMe lone pair contributes to destabilizing the dσ* orbital by electrostatic repulsion.
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hal-02490295 , version 1 (25-02-2020)

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Adrien Soupart, Fabienne Alary, Jean-Louis Heully, Isabelle M. Dixon. On the Possible Coordination on a 3MC State Itself? Mechanistic Investigation Using DFT-Based Methods. Inorganics, 2020, 8 (2), pp.15. ⟨10.3390/inorganics8020015⟩. ⟨hal-02490295⟩
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