X-ray Transient Absorption and Picosecond IR Spectroscopy of Fulvalene(tetracarbonyl)diruthenium on Photoexcitation
Journal article, 2012
Caught in the light: The fulvalene diruthenium complex shown on the left side of the picture captures sun light, causing initial Ru–Ru bond rupture to furnish a long-lived triplet biradical of syn configuration. This species requires thermal activation to reach a crossing point (middle) into the singlet manifold on route to its thermal storage isomer on the right through the anti biradical.
isomerization
photochemistry
ab initio calculations
time-resolved spectroscopy
ruthenium
Author
Michael R. Harpham
Argonne National Laboratory
Son C. Nguyen
University of California
Zongrui Hou
University of California
Jeffrey C. Grossman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Charles B. Harris
University of California
Michael W. Mara
Northwestern University
Andrew B. Stickrath
Argonne National Laboratory
Yosuke Kanai
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alexie M. Kolpak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Donghwa Lee
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Di-Jia Liu
Argonne National Laboratory
Justin P. Lomont
University of California
Kasper Moth-Poulsen
Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Applied Surface Chemistry
N. Vinokurov
University of California
Lin X. Chen
Argonne National Laboratory
K. P. C. Vollhardt
University of California
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
1433-7851 (ISSN) 1521-3773 (eISSN)
Vol. 51 31 7692-7696Subject Categories
Inorganic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Areas of Advance
Energy
Materials Science
DOI
10.1002/anie.201202952