Rhenium fac-Tricarbonyl Bisimine Chalcogenide Complexes : Synthesis, Photophysical Studies, and Confocal and Time-Resolved Cell Microscopy

Neumann, Till and Ramu, Vadde and Bertin, Julie and He, Menglan and Vervisch, Caitlan and Coogan, Michael and Bertrand, Helene (2024) Rhenium fac-Tricarbonyl Bisimine Chalcogenide Complexes : Synthesis, Photophysical Studies, and Confocal and Time-Resolved Cell Microscopy. Inorganic Chemistry, 63 (2). pp. 1197-1213. ISSN 0020-1669

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Abstract

We describe the preparation, characterization, and imaging studies of rhenium carbonyl complexes with a pyta (4-(2-pyridyl)-1,2,3-triazole) or tapy (1-(2-pyridyl)-1,2,3-triazole)-based heteroaromatic N∧N ligand and thiolate or selenoate X ligand. The stability and photophysical properties of the selenolate complexes are compared with parent chloride complexes and previously described analogues with benzenethiolate ligands. Two complexes were imaged in A549 cells upon excitation at 405 nm. Colocalization studies suggest a lysosomal accumulation, while one parent chloride complex was described to localize at the Golgi apparatus. Preliminary fluorescence lifetime measurements and imaging demonstrate potential for application in time-resolved microscopy techniques due to the long and variable lifetimes observed in cellular environments, including an increase in lifetime between the solution and solid state many times larger than previously reported.