![]() ![]() ![]() Involvement of the primarily metal (with minor contribution of the bridge, L) and ancillary ligand (AL) based orbitals in the second oxidised and first reduced steps could also be corroborated by the metal-based anisotropic and free radical EPR spectral signatures, respectively. Reductions of 1 2+– 4 2+ were, however, centred around the ancillary ligand (AL1/AL2), in spite of the π-accepting feature of the TzTz core of L, implying the weaker π-acceptor form of the latter with special reference to the former. ![]() A collective consideration of experimental and DFT calculations revealed largely bridge- and metal-based first and second oxidative steps, which could be attributed to the electronic forms 3+ ↔ 3+ and 4+ for 1 3+– 4 3+ and 1 4+– 4 4+, respectively, implying the noninnocence of L 2−, which was enhanced on moving from bpy to pap and from Os to Ru. The potential of the multiple redox steps of the complexes varied as a function of Ru versus Os and AL1 versus AL2. It also highlighted the twisting of the phenolato functions of L 2− with respect to the central thiazolothiazole (TzTz) unit and the unreduced state of the azo function of AL2 and multiple non-covalent π⋯π/CH⋯π interactions within the molecules in the nearby asymmetric units. Structural elucidation of the complexes established an anti-oriented bridge (L 2−) linked to the metal units through its N,O −/O −,N-donor sets, which led to two six-membered chelates in each case. The article deals with the structural and electronic forms of hitherto unexplored L 2− (H 2L = 2,5-bis(2-hydroxyphenyl)thiazolo-thiazole) bridged analogous diruthenium 2+ (PF 6) 2/(ClO 4) 2 complexes as a function of moderate-to-strongly π-accepting ancillary ligands: AL1 = 2,2′-bipyridine (bpy) and AL2 = 2-phenylazopyridine (pap). ![]()
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