@article{2928854, title = "Combining photosensitizers: The case of [Cl2Pt(bpym)Re(CO)3Cl] and its dithiolate analogs", author = "Eugenia Koutsouri and Athanasios Zarkadoulas and Christodoulos Makedonas and Charalampos Koumbounis and Patrina Paraskevopoulou and Christiana A. Mitsopoulou", journal = "Polyhedron", year = "2013", volume = "52", pages = "234--245", publisher = "ELSEVIER BV", issn = "0277-5387", doi = "10.1016/j.poly.2012.09.041", keywords = "Diimine-dithiolate complexes; Bimetallic complexes; Chromophore; Rhenium; Platinum", abstract = "The bimetallic complex [Cl2Pt(bpym)Re(CO)(3)Cl] (4) (where bpym denotes 2,2’-bipyrimidine) has been prepared along with the corresponding monometallic precursors and the dithiolate derivatives with bdt(2-) (1,2-benzene-dithiolate) and mnt(2-) (1,2-maleonitrile-dithiolate). The compounds have been characterized using elemental analysis, NMR, FTIR, UV-Vis and cyclic voltammetry methods. DFT and TD-DFT calculations on all the complexes under study allow us to correlate geometries and electronic structures. The theoretical studies of the dithiolate bimetallic complexes assigned the main band in the UV-Vis spectrum as a mixed metal ligand to ligand charge transfer transition (MML’CT), analogous to [M(diimine)(dithiolate)] complexes, with the former red shifted due to the presence of the Re(CO)(3)Cl moiety. Moreover coordination of the dithiolate ligand to the bimetallic complex 4 influences not only the energy, but also the nature of HOMO orbital altering it from Re(CO)(3)Cl to Pt/bdt character. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved." }