Photoactive Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States in 3d6 Complexes with Cr0, MnI, FeII, and CoIII

N Sinha, OS Wenger - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many coordination complexes and organometallic compounds with the 4d6 and 5d6
valence electron configurations have outstanding photophysical and photochemical …

Improved transition metal photosensitizers to drive advances in photocatalysis

D Kim, VQ Dang, TS Teets - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
To function effectively in a photocatalytic application, a photosensitizer's light absorption,
excited-state lifetime, and redox potentials, both in the ground state and excited state, are …

Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex

J Steube, A Kruse, OS Bokareva, T Reuter… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Although iron is a dream candidate to substitute noble metals in photoactive complexes,
realization of emissive and photoactive iron compounds is demanding due to the fast …

A photoreactive iron (II) complex luminophore

W Leis, MA Argüello Cordero… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Controlling the order and lifetimes of electronically excited states is essential to effective light-
to-potential energy conversion by molecular chromophores. This work reports a luminescent …

Photoactive iron complexes: more sustainable, but still a challenge

P Dierks, Y Vukadinovic, M Bauer - Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
On transition metals such as iron rests lots of hope to replace precious metal catalysts in the
field of photochemistry for a more sustainable future. Indeed, significant progress has been …

Ligand-Field Spectroscopy of Co(III) Complexes and the Development of a Spectrochemical Series for Low-Spin d6 Charge-Transfer Chromophores

JT Yarranton, JK McCusker - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A study of a series of six-coordinate Co (III) complexes has been carried out to quantify
spectroscopic parameters for a range of ligands that are commonly employed to realize …

Leveraging excited-state coherence for synthetic control of ultrafast dynamics

BC Paulus, SL Adelman, LL Jamula, JK McCusker - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Design-specific control over excited-state dynamics is necessary for any application
seeking to convert light into chemical potential. Such control is especially desirable in iron …

Establishing the origin of Marcus-inverted-region behaviour in the excited-state dynamics of cobalt (III) polypyridyl complexes

A Ghosh, JT Yarranton, JK McCusker - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Growing interest in the use of first-row transition metal complexes in a number of applied
contexts—including but not limited to photoredox catalysis and solar energy conversion …

Long-lived, strongly emissive, and highly reducing excited states in Mo (0) complexes with chelating isocyanides

P Herr, F Glaser, LA Büldt, CB Larsen… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Newly discovered tris (diisocyanide) molybdenum (0) complexes are Earth-abundant
isoelectronic analogues of the well-known class of [Ru (α-diimine) 3] 2+ compounds with …

Photophysics and photochemistry of iron carbene complexes for solar energy conversion and photocatalysis

L Lindh, P Chábera, NW Rosemann, J Uhlig… - Catalysts, 2020 - mdpi.com
Earth-abundant first row transition metal complexes are important for the development of
large-scale photocatalytic and solar energy conversion applications. Coordination …