PMID- 28898480 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20180207 LR - 20180207 IS - 1521-3765 (Electronic) IS - 0947-6539 (Linking) VI - 23 IP - 62 DP - 2017 Nov 7 TI - eta(1) -Arene Complexes as Intermediates in the Preparation of Molecular Phosphorescent Iridium(III) Complexes. PG - 15729-15737 LID - 10.1002/chem.201703252 [doi] AB - Molecular phosphorescent heteroleptic bis-tridentate iridium(III) emitters have been prepared via eta(1) -arene intermediates. In the presence of 4.0 mol of AgOTf, the complex [(IrClkappa(3) -N,C,N-(pyC(6) HMe(2) py))(mu-Cl)](2) (1; pyC(6) H(2) Me(2) py=1,3-di(2-pyridyl)-4,6-dimethylbenzene) reacted with 9-(6-phenylpyridin-2-yl)-9H-carbazole (PhpyCzH) and 2-phenoxy-6-phenylpyridine (PhpyOPh) to give [Irkappa(3) -N,C,N-(pyC(6) HMe(2) py)kappa(3) -C,N,C'-(C(6) H(4) pyCzH)]OTf (2) and [Irkappa(3) -N,C,N-(pyC(6) HMe(2) py)kappa(3) -C,N,C'-(C(6) H(4) pyOPh)]OTf (3). The X-ray diffraction structures of 2 and 3 reveal that the carbazolyl and phenoxy substituents of the C,N,C' ligand coordinate to the metal center to form an eta(1) -arene pi bond. Treatment of 2 and 3 with KOtBu led to the deprotonation of the coordinated carbon atom of the eta(1) -arene group to afford the molecular phosphorescent [5t+4t'] heteroleptic iridium(III) complexes [Irkappa(3) -N,C,N-(pyC(6) HMe(2) py)kappa(3) -C,N,C'-(C(6) H(4) pyCz)] (4) and [Irkappa(3) -N,C,N-(pyC(6) HMe(2) py)kappa(3) -C,N,C'-(C(6) H(4) pyOC(6) H(4) )] (5). These complexes are green emitters that display short lifetimes and high quantum yields of 0.73 (4) and 0.87 (5) in the solid state. CI - (c) 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. FAU - Esteruelas, Miguel A AU - Esteruelas MA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4829-7590 AD - Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, Instituto de Sintesis Quimica y Catalisis Homogenea (ISQCH), Centro de Innovacion en Quimica Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain. FAU - Gomez-Bautista, Daniel AU - Gomez-Bautista D AD - Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, Instituto de Sintesis Quimica y Catalisis Homogenea (ISQCH), Centro de Innovacion en Quimica Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain. FAU - Lopez, Ana M AU - Lopez AM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7183-4975 AD - Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, Instituto de Sintesis Quimica y Catalisis Homogenea (ISQCH), Centro de Innovacion en Quimica Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain. FAU - Onate, Enrique AU - Onate E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2094-719X AD - Departamento de Quimica Inorganica, Instituto de Sintesis Quimica y Catalisis Homogenea (ISQCH), Centro de Innovacion en Quimica Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA), Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain. FAU - Tsai, Jui-Yi AU - Tsai JY AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8516-9985 AD - Universal Display Corporation, 375 Phillips Boulevard, Ewing, New Jersey, 08618, USA. FAU - Xia, Chuanjun AU - Xia C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6841-6027 AD - Universal Display Corporation, 375 Phillips Boulevard, Ewing, New Jersey, 08618, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20171016 PL - Germany TA - Chemistry JT - Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) JID - 9513783 OTO - NOTNLM OT - C-H activation OT - arene ligands OT - heteroleptic complexes OT - iridium OT - luminescence OT - tridentate ligands EDAT- 2017/09/13 06:00 MHDA- 2017/09/13 06:01 CRDT- 2017/09/13 06:00 PHST- 2017/07/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/09/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/09/13 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2017/09/13 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/chem.201703252 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chemistry. 2017 Nov 7;23(62):15729-15737. doi: 10.1002/chem.201703252. Epub 2017 Oct 16.