Inside Back Cover: Engineering of Ruthenium(II) Photosensitizers with Non‐Innocent Oxyquinolate and Carboxyamidoquinolate Ligands for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells (Chem. Eur. J. 31/2017)

• Published in: Chemistry : a European journal Vol. 23; no. 31; p. 7621
• Main Authors: Ngo, Ken T., Lee, Nicholas A., Pinnace, Sashari D., Rochford, Jonathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01-06-2017
• Subjects: charge transfer; density functional calculations; Ligands; Metal complexes; non-innocent ligand; photochemistry; Photosynthesis; Ruthenium; Solar cells
• ISSN: 0947-6539; 1521-3765
• DOI: 10.1002/chem.201700801

Non‐innocent ligand transition metal complexes are appealing due to their remarkable redox properties imparted by the presence of extensive metal(dπ)–ligand(π) bonding. The non‐innocent character derived from the mixing of ruthenium dπ and oxyquinolate or N‐carboxyamidoquinolate π orbitals generates hybrid metal–ligand frontier orbitals that play a major role in contributing to an improved power conversion efficiency in a Ru non‐innocent ligand sensitized DSSC device. More information can be found in the Full Paper by J. Rochford and co‐workers on page 7497.