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 7692-7696

Subject Categories

Inorganic Chemistry

Physical Chemistry

Areas of Advance

Energy

Materials Science

DOI

10.1002/anie.201202952

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