Michael S Kellogg, Austin R Mencke, Collin N Muniz, Thabassum A Nattikallungal, Fabiola Cardoso-Delgado, Nina Baluyot-Reyes, Marielle Sewell, Matthew J Bird, Stephen E Bradforth, Mark E Thompson
A series of steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopies were performed on a set of eight carbene-metal-amide (cMa) complexes, where M = Cu and Au, that have been used as photosensitizers for photosensitized electrocatalytic reactions. Using ps-to-ns and ns-to-ms transient absorption spectroscopies (psTA and nsTA, respectively), the excited-state kinetics from light absorption, intersystem crossing (ISC), and eventually intermolecular charge transfer were thoroughly characterized. Using time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) and psTA with a thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) model, the variation in intersystem crossing (ISC), ( S 1 → T 1 ) rates (∼3-120 × 109 s-1 ), and Δ E ST values (73-115 meV) for these compounds were fully characterized, reflecting systematic changes to the carbene, carbazole, and metal...
April 25, 2024: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and Interfaces