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Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds

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<strong>Photochemistry</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Photophysics</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Coordination</strong> <strong>Compounds</strong>: Ruthenium 125<br />

Fig. 7 Emission spectrum <strong>of</strong> ∗ [Ru(bpy)3] 2+ in alcoholic solution at 77 K(solid line) <strong>and</strong><br />

at room temperature (dashed line)<br />

mal equilibrium. This cluster <strong>of</strong> luminescent, closely spaced excited states<br />

will be indicated in the following by ∗ [Ru(bpy)3] 2+ or as the 3MLCT state.<br />

∗ [Ru(bpy)3] 2+ has a substantial triplet character <strong>and</strong> a single lig<strong>and</strong> localized<br />

excitation.<br />

In rigid glass at 77 K the emission lifetime <strong>of</strong> ∗ [Ru(bpy)3] 2+ is ∼ 5 µs <strong>and</strong><br />

the emission quantum yield is ∼ 0.4 [1, 6, 8]. Taken together with the unitary<br />

intersystem crossing efficiency, these figures yield a value <strong>of</strong> ∼ 13 µs for<br />

the radiative lifetime. Values <strong>of</strong> this order <strong>of</strong> magnitude have been found for<br />

MLCT excited states <strong>of</strong> other transition metal complexes [50–53]. LC excited<br />

states <strong>of</strong> transition metal complexes usually exhibit radiative lifetimes in the<br />

millisecond range [1, 6, 49, 50, 53–60].<br />

Fig. 8 Temperature dependence <strong>of</strong> the emission lifetime <strong>of</strong> ∗ [Ru(bpy)3] 2+ in nitrile solution

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