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Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds

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178 S. Campagna et al.<br />

< 50 ns to 10 µs, depending on the complex [326]. This study demonstrated<br />

that the reorganization energy for the Mn(II)-to-Ru(III) electron transfer was<br />

quite large (1.4–2.0 eV), suggesting significant inner reorganization <strong>of</strong> the<br />

manganese moiety during the process [327]. As an obvious consequence,<br />

very fast Mn(II)-to-Ru(III) electron transfer could not be expected. A further<br />

complication was that the manganese subunit could directly quench the<br />

excited ruthenium chromophore by Dexter energy transfer, competing with<br />

electron transfer quenching by the sacrificial acceptor for short Ru–Mn distances.<br />

These arguments led to the preparation <strong>of</strong> more elaborated systems<br />

in which intermediate donor species were interposed between ruthenium <strong>and</strong>

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