We have synthesized new metal complexes which will be good candidates for reverse saturable absorbers and to study excited state energy transfer. They are coordinated to mono-functionalized bipyridyl ligands attached to various aryls (R1  ) synthesized by utilizing multi-step Wittig-Horner reactions procedures. The ligands are linked by extended p-conjugated phenylenevinylene backbones (R2  ) which serves to lower the energy of the triplet excited state of the ligand. The photophysical properties of the ligands, Ru2+ and Cr3+ complexes have been studied and reported.

Metal complexes containing aryl-phenylene-vinylene bipyridine ligands for reverse saturable absorbers

245th National Meeting (2013)

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