Capturar y analizar la estructura de estado excitado de un complejo de fenantrolina Cu (I) por difracción con

Ivan I Vorontsov1, Tim Graber, Andrey Yu Kovalevsky

  • 1Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.

Resumen

La fotoexcitación de los complejos de cobre ([Cu(I) ((dmp) ((dppe))) revela estados triplet transitorios. Los efectos de la matriz de cristal limitan las distorsiones moleculares observadas en experimentos con resolución temporal en comparación con los cálculos teóricos.

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