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.
ab initio calculations
photochemistry
isomerization
time-resolved spectroscopy
ruthenium
Author
Michael R. Harpham
Argonne National Laboratory
Son C. Nguyen
UC Berkeley
Zongrui Hou
UC Berkeley
Jeffrey C. Grossman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles B. Harris
UC Berkeley
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
Donghwa Lee
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Di-Jia Liu
Argonne National Laboratory
Justin P. Lomont
UC Berkeley
Kasper Moth-Poulsen
Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Applied Surface Chemistry
N. Vinokurov
UC Berkeley
Lin X. Chen
Argonne National Laboratory
K. P. C. Vollhardt
UC Berkeley
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
1433-7851 (ISSN) 1521-3773 (eISSN)
Vol. 51 31 7692-7696Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Inorganic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Areas of Advance
Energy
Materials Science
DOI
10.1002/anie.201202952