@article { ISI:000306942600009,
	title = {Bis(tridentate) Ruthenium-Terpyridine Complexes Featuring Microsecond Excited-State Lifetimes},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY},
	volume = {134},
	number = {30},
	year = {2012},
	month = {AUG 1},
	pages = {12354-12357},
	abstract = {A series of heteroleptic bis(tridentate) ruthenium(II) complexes, each bearing a substituted 2,2{\textquoteright}:6{\textquoteright},2 {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteright}-terpyridine (terpy) ligand, is characterized by room temperature microsecond excited-state lifetimes. This observation is a consequence of the strongly sigma-donating and weakly pi-accepting tridentate carbene ligand, 2{\textquoteright},6{\textquoteright}-bis (1-mesityl-3-m ethyl-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl-5-idene)-pyridine ((CNC)-N-boolean AND-C-boolean AND), adjacent to the terpy maintaining a large separation between the ligand field and metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) states while also preserving a large (MLCT)-M-3 energy. The observed lifetimes are the highest documented lifetimes for unimolecular ruthenium(II) complexes and are four orders in magnitude higher than that associated with {[}Ru(terpy)(2)](2+).},
	issn = {0002-7863},
	doi = {10.1021/ja3039536},
	author = {Brown, Douglas G. and Sanguantrakun, Nawaporn and Schulze, Benjamin and Schubert, Ulrich S. and Berlinguette, Curtis P.}
}
