[HTML][HTML] Harnessing high-energy MLCT excited states for artificial photosynthesis

A Cotic, I Ramírez-Wierzbicki, A Cadranel - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Important fractions of the energy absorbed in natural and artificial photosynthetic schemes
are dissipated via fast internal conversion processes. In contrast, chromophores that …

The Excited‐State Creutz–Taube Ion

GE Pieslinger, I Ramírez‐Wierzbicki… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The excited‐state version of the Creutz–Taube ion was prepared via visible light excitation
of [(NH3) 5RuII (μ‐pz) RuII (NH3) 5] 4+. The resulting excited state is a mixed valence {RuIII …

Photocatalytic activities of cadmium (II) acetophenone thiosemicarbazone complex: experimental and density functional theory based study

A Lathe, K Palanisamy, M Prakash, AM Palve - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Cd (II) complex of the type CdI 2 (acetptsczH) 2 (where, acetptsczH= acetophenone
thiosemicarbazone) has been utilized for photoreduction of Cr (VI) to Cr (III) and …

Vibrational Coherences of the Photoinduced Mixed-Valent Creutz–Taube Ion Revealed by Excited State Dynamics

A Šrut, V Krewald - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
A recent study of photoinduced mixed-valency in the one-electron reduced form (μ-pz)[RuII
(NH3) 5] 24+ of the Creutz–Taube ion used transient absorption spectroscopy with vis-NIR …

Unusually high energy barriers for internal conversion in a {Ru (bpy)} chromophore

A Cotic, K Veys, D Escudero, A Cadranel - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Internal conversion (IC) coupled to vibrational relaxation (VR) in molecular chromophores is
a source of major energy losses in natural and artificial solar-to-chemical energy conversion …

A photoinduced mixed valence photoswitch

A Cotic, S Cerfontaine, LD Slep, B Elias… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The ground state and photoinduced mixed valence states (GSMV and PIMV, respectively) of
a dinuclear (Dp4+) ruthenium (II) complex bearing 2, 2′-bipyridine ancillary ligands and a …

Bifurcation of excited state trajectories toward energy transfer or electron transfer directed by wave function symmetry

PS Oviedo, LM Baraldo… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
This work explores the concept that differential wave function overlap between excited states
can be engineered within a molecular chromophore. The aim is to control excited state wave …

Photoinduced intervalence charge transfers: spectroscopic tools to study fundamental phenomena and applications

I Ramírez‐Wierzbicki, A Cotic, A Cadranel - ChemPhysChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The exploitation of excited state chemistry for solar energy conversion or photocatalysis has
been continuously increasing, and the needs of a transition to a sustainable human …

Intense Photoinduced Intervalence Charge Transfer in High‐Valent Iron Mixed Phenolate/Carbene Complexes

A Cadranel, L Gravogl, D Munz… - Chemistry–A European …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We report high‐valent iron complexes supported by N‐heterocyclic carbene (NHC)‐
anchored, bis‐phenolate pincer ligands that undergo ligand‐to‐metal charge transfer …

Ru Monoimines with Extended Excited-State Lifetimes and Geometrical Modulation of Photoinduced Mixed-Valence Interactions

I Ramírez-Wierzbicki, GE Pieslinger… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The photophysical properties of monodentate-imine ruthenium complexes do not usually
fulfil the requirements for supramolecular solar energy conversion schemes. Their short …