Metal complexes of 5,10,15-tris(pentafluorophenyl)-20-pyrrolyl N-confused porphyrin and its meso-pyrrolyl-bridged dimers: Synthesis and optical properties

Abstract

Inner- and peripheral-metal complexation behaviors of 5,10,15-tris(pentafluorophenyl)-20-pyrrolyl N-confused porphyrin (5) and its meso-pyrrolyl-bridged dimers (6-Ni and 7-Ni) were studied in this work. The resulting inner-Ag and peripheral-BF2 complex (5-AgBF[Formula: see text] exhibited the bathochromically shifted absorption feature ([Formula: see text]772 nm), which was attributed to the BF2 complexation. Furthermore, the bis-Ag/Ni complexes of dimer (6-Ag[Formula: see text]Ni and 7-Ag[Formula: see text]Ni) revealed remarkably lower energy bands in the deeper near-infrared ([Formula: see text] NIR-II) region ([Formula: see text] = 1226 and 1042 nm, respectively) through strong interchromophore interactions.