Electrochemical, Spectroscopic, and Computational Investigation of a Series of Polypyridyl Ruthenium(II) Complexes: Characterization of Reduced States

A series of polypyridyl ruthenium(II) complexes has been synthesized and characterized by 1H-NMR, electronic absorption voltammetric techniques. Among this series, hexafluorophosphate salts eight were newly prepared. Due to the well-known ability class compounds assist electro- photocatalytic reductive processes (such as reduction CO2, H+ NAD(P)+ models), particular attention paid investigate nature their one- two-electron reduced species through computational spectroscopic