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Tripodal osmium polypyridyl complexes for self-assembly on platinum nanoparticles

Contreras-Carballada, Pablo ; Edafe, Fabio ; Tichelaar, Frans D. ; Belser, Peter ; Cola, Luisa De ; Williams, René M.

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2011, vol. 2, no. 12, p. 1460-1463

The combination of platinum nanoparticles with a tripodal osmium complex that anchors to the metal surface leads, under visible light irradiation, to the formation of solvated electrons. The formation kinetics is limited by the detachment of the electron from the platinum surface into the solution, the particle showing a type of capacitor behavior

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Luminescent acetylthiol derivative tripodal osmium(II) and iridium(III) complexes: Spectroscopy in solution and on surfaces

Ramachandra, Srinidhi ; Polo, Federico ; Edafe, Fabio ; Schuermann, Klaus C. ; Nijhuis, Christian A. ; Belser, Peter ; Reus, William F. ; Whitesides, George M. ; Cola, Luisa De

In: Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2011, vol. 4, no. 83, p. 779-799

Luminescent Os(II) and Ir(III) complexes containing a tripodal-type structure terminalized with three thiol derivatives are described. The tripod is introduced through derivatization, with a rigid spacer, of a phenanthroline ligand coordinated to the metal ion, and the entire structure possesses axial geometry. The geometry of the complexes combined with the three anchoring sites, the thiol...