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Ultrafast spectroscopy of a photochromic ruthenium sulfoxide complex
Beth Anne McClure1, Jeffrey J Rack
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA.
Abstract:
Photochromic [Ru(bpy)(2)(OSO)](PF(6)), where bpy is 2,2'-bipyridine and OSO is 2-methylsulfinylbenzoate, was investigated by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. The results show that for both S- and O-bonded isomers, a (3)MLCT state is formed on a femtosecond time scale. Also observed is the formation of multiple metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) states, representing different conformers, prior to isomerization on the picosecond time scale. These results and others are compiled in an energy diagram depicting these results.
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