posted on 2009-10-26, 00:00authored byDavid V. Partyka, Nihal Deligonul, Marlena P. Washington, Thomas G. Gray
Rhenium(I) complexes of azadipyrromethene ligands are reported; three have been characterized crystallographically. The free ligands and their metallo-complexes undergo reductive electrochemistry. Red-light absorption results from optically allowed transitions to a ligand-localized LUMO.