NIR absorbing diferrocene-containing meso-cyano-BODIPY with a UV-Vis-NIR spectrum remarkably close to that of magnesium tetracyanotetraferrocenyltetraazaporphyrin

Natalia O Didukh; Yuriy V Zatsikha; Gregory T Rohde; Tanner S Blesener; Viktor P Yakubovskyi; Yuriy P Kovtun; Victor N Nemykin

doi:10.1039/c6cc06344f

NIR absorbing diferrocene-containing meso-cyano-BODIPY with a UV-Vis-NIR spectrum remarkably close to that of magnesium tetracyanotetraferrocenyltetraazaporphyrin

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Oct 4;52(77):11563-6. doi: 10.1039/c6cc06344f. Epub 2016 Sep 6.

Authors

Natalia O Didukh¹, Yuriy V Zatsikha, Gregory T Rohde, Tanner S Blesener, Viktor P Yakubovskyi, Yuriy P Kovtun, Victor N Nemykin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 27602790
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc06344f

Abstract

Diferrocene-containing meso-cyano-BODIPY (4) was prepared by the direct cyanation/oxidation reaction of symmetric BODIPY 1 followed by Knoevenagel condensation with ferrocenealdehyde. Ferrocene-containing BODIPY 4 was characterized by a variety of spectroscopic, electrochemical, and theoretical methods and its UV-Vis-NIR spectrum has a striking similarity with a UV-Vis-NIR spectrum of the previously reported magnesium 2(3),7(8),12(13),17(18)-tetracyano-3(2),8(7),13(12),18(17)-tetraferrocenyl-5,10,15,20-tetraazaporphyrin.