Jiangxi University of Science and Technology

About: Jiangxi University of Science and Technology is a education organization based out in Ganzhou, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Microstructure & Alloy. The organization has 6958 authors who have published 5576 publications receiving 50650 citations.

Photoinduced Carbon Monoxide Release from Half‐Sandwich Iron(II) Carbonyl Complexes by Visible Irradiation: Kinetic Analysis and Mechanistic Investigation

Abstract: Three half-sandwich iron(II) complexes, [Fe(η(5) -Cp)(cis-CO)2 X] (X(-) =Cl(-) , Br(-) , I(-) ), were synthesized and characterized. The kinetics of the CO-releasing behaviour of these complexes upon illumination by visible irradiation in various media was investigated. Our results indicated that the CO release was significantly affected by the auxiliary ligands. Of the three light sources used (blue, green, and red), blue light exhibited the highest efficiency. In the photoinduced CO release, the solvents and exogenous nucleophiles in the media were involved, which allowed their CO-releasing reaction to comply with pseudo first-order model rather than the characteristic zero-order model for a photochemical reaction. In aqueous media (D2 O), an intermediate bearing the core of {Fe(II) (cis-CO)2 } involving cleavage of cyclopentadiene was detected. Despite the non-absorption of the red light, its illumination combined with nucleophilic substitution did cause considerable CO release. Assessment of the cytotoxicity of the three complexes indicated that they showed good biocompatibility.