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Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds

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226 M.T. Indelli et al.<br />

Fig. 3 Frontier orbitals <strong>of</strong> Rh(ppy)2TAP + . From [67]<br />

3<br />

Polynuclear <strong>and</strong> Supramolecular Species<br />

3.1<br />

Homobinuclear Complexes<br />

A few homobinuclear lig<strong>and</strong>-bridged Rh(III) polypyridine complexes have<br />

been studied [3, 75, 76]. Their photochemical interest is rather limited, however,<br />

as they behave generally like their mononuclear analogues, with minor<br />

differences in spectral shifts <strong>and</strong> lifetimes. An interesting type <strong>of</strong> systems,<br />

which bring together the complexities <strong>of</strong> lig<strong>and</strong>-bridged species <strong>and</strong> multiply<br />

bridged metal–metal bonded rhodium dimers, has recently been reported by<br />

Campagna et al. [77]. In (14) two quadruply bridged Rh(II)-Rh(II) dimers are<br />

the “molecular components” <strong>of</strong> a higher-order two-component system held<br />

together by the complex bis-naphthyridine-type lig<strong>and</strong>. As already observed<br />

for some related simple rhodium dimers (e.g., Rh2(CH3COO)4(PPh3)2) [21],<br />

the “binuclear” compound has a non-emissive but long-lived excited state in<br />

room-temperature solution. In the case <strong>of</strong> 14, the long-lived state has been assigned<br />

as an MLCT (metal–metal π ∗ to naphthyridine π ∗ )excitedstate[77].

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