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

The dyads generically indicated in Eqs. 6–8 are actually heterobinuclear complexes<br />

when, as it is <strong>of</strong>ten the case, the photosensitizer P or the quencher Q<br />

are transition metal complex moieties, <strong>and</strong> the chemical linkage is provided<br />

by a bridging lig<strong>and</strong>. A number <strong>of</strong> examples <strong>of</strong> such processes are discussed<br />

in the following sections.<br />

3.2.1<br />

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Ru(II)-Rh(III) Polypyridine Dyads<br />

Though not exclusively, dyads containing Rh(III) polypyridine units have<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten involved as P or Q (Eqs. 7, 8) the chromophores par excellence <strong>of</strong> inorganic<br />

photochemistry, namely Ru(II) polypyridine complexes. The general<br />

behavior <strong>of</strong> Ru(II)-Rh(III) polypyridine dyads can be discussed taking dyad<br />

15 as an example [84].<br />

The absorption spectrum <strong>of</strong> dyad 15, as compared with those <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Ru(Me2phen)2(Me2bpy) 2+ <strong>and</strong> Rh(Me2bpy)3 3+ molecular components, is<br />

shown in Fig. 5. It shows that the spectra <strong>of</strong> the molecular components are<br />

strictly additive, as expected for weak intercomponent interaction, <strong>and</strong> that<br />

selective (100%) excitation <strong>of</strong> the Ru(II) chromophore can be easily performed<br />

in the visible region, whereas partial excitation <strong>of</strong> the Rh(III) component<br />

(ca. 70% at300 nm) can be achieved in the ultraviolet. The energy<br />

level diagram for this dyad (Fig. 6) shows that, besides the photophysical<br />

processes taking place within each molecular component, a number <strong>of</strong> intercomponent<br />

processes are thermodynamically allowed. They include:<br />

∗Ru(II)-Rh(III) → Ru(III)-Rh(II) electron transfer from excited Ru(II)<br />

(a)<br />

Ru(II)-∗Rh(III) → Ru(III)-Rh(II) electron transfer to excited Rh(III)<br />

(b)<br />

Ru(II)-∗Rh(III) → ∗Ru(II)-Rh(III) energy transfer from Rh(III) to Ru(II)<br />

(c)<br />

Ru(III)-Rh(II) → Ru(II)-Rh(III) back electron transfer . (d)

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