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A Near‐Infrared‐II Emissive Chromium(III) Complex
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The combination of π‐donating amido with π‐accepting pyridine coordination units in a tridentate chelate ligand causes a strong nephelauxetic effect in a homoleptic Cr III complex, which shifts its luminescence to the NIR‐II spectral range. Previously explored Cr III polypyridine complexes typically emit between 727 and 778 nm (in the red to NIR‐I spectral region), and ligand design strategies have so far concentrated on optimizing the ligand field strength. The present work takes a fundamentally different approach and focusses on increasing metal–ligand bond covalence to shift the ruby‐like 2 E emission of Cr III to 1067 nm at 77 K.
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![Figure 1 Molecular structures of (a) [Cr(bpy)3]3+ (bpy=2,2′‐bipyridine),[ 3b , 4 ] (b) [Cr(phen)3]3+ (phen=1,10‐phenanthroline),[ 3b , 4 ] (c) [Cr(tpy)2]3+ (tpy=2,2′:6′,2′′‐terpyridine),[ 3b , 4 ] (d) [Cr(ddpd)2]3+ (ddpd=N,N′‐dimethyl‐N,N′‐dipyridine‐2‐yl‐2,6‐diamine), [5] and (e) [Cr(dqp)2]3+ (dqp=2,6‐di(quinoline‐8‐yl)pyridine) [6] along with their luminescence quantum yields (φ) in solution at room temperature and wavelengths of emission band maxima (λem). (f) Molecular structure of the new [Cr(dpc)2]+ complex reported herein (dpc=3,6‐di‐tert‐butyl‐1,8‐di(pyridine‐2‐yl)‐carbazolato) and its emission peak wavelength.](/paper-figures/22acb4e712064db59f6ee72806ef4425/a-nearinfraredii-emissive-chromium-iii-complex-figure-1.jpg)

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![Figure 3 Molecular structure of [Cr(dpc)2]+ in [Cr(dpc)2](PF6)⋅2.5(C2H4Cl2) (H atoms, the counter ion and solvent molecules are omitted for clarity, 50 % probability ellipsoids). Selected bond angles (°) and bond distances (Å): N2‐Cr1‐N5, 173.69(8); N1‐Cr1‐N3, 173.66(7); N4‐Cr1‐N6, 173.16(7); Cr1‐N2, 1.969(2); Cr1‐N5, 1.962(3); Cr1‐N1, 2.133(2); Cr1‐N3, 2.115(3); Cr1‐N4, 2.109(3); Cr1‐N6, 2.133(2). CCDC 2082071 ([Cr(dpc)2](PF6)⋅2.5(C2H4Cl2)) contains the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper. These data can be obtained free of charge from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.](/paper-figures/64c63769876e45ac931f3aa1880b0575/a-nearinfraredii-emissive-chromium-iii-complex-figure-3.jpg)
 in acetonitrile with 0.1 M ( n Bu4N)(PF6) as supporting electrolyte, recorded at a scan rate of 100 mV s−1. (The Fc+/0 potential corresponds to 0.63 V vs. NHE). [34] (b) UV/Vis absorption spectrum of [Cr(dpc)2](PF6) in acetonitrile at 20 °C (black trace). The red trace shows the long‐wavelength part of this spectrum on a magnified ϵ‐scale (right y‐axis, recorded on a more concentrated solution, see inset). The vertical black and red bars mark the energies of DFT‐calculated vertical transitions, the heights of these bars reflect relative oscillator strengths. The heights of the vertical red bars were multiplied by a factor of 10 relative to the vertical black bars. (c) Luminescence spectrum of [Cr(dpc)2](PF6) in acetonitrile at 77 K, obtained after excitation at 450 nm.](/paper-figures/353c2a29ee144fa0b174d6640fe5eeac/a-nearinfraredii-emissive-chromium-iii-complex-figure-4.jpg)
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- Authors
- Sinha, N., Jiménez, J., Pfund, B., Prescimone, A., Piguet, C., & Wenger, O. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Basel (CH)
- University of Geneva (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Piguet, Claude
- Wenger, Oliver S.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021-07-12
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 44
- Pages
- 23722-23728
- ISSN
- 1433-7851 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-3773
- PMC
- PMC8597102
- OpenAlex
- W3168007982
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 76
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- 2026: 17 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 5.54
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- Angewandte Chemie International Edition (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- edoc (University of Basel) (acceptedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- edoc (University of Basel)
- Funders
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (200021_178760, 200020_178758)
- Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
- Keywords
- chromium(III) complexes, NIR-II emission, nephelauxetic effect, luminescence shift, low-temperature luminescence
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