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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>: Rhodium 231<br />

with appreciably constant energetics but differing in the number (1–3) <strong>of</strong><br />

p-phenylene spacers in the bridge <strong>and</strong>, in one <strong>of</strong> the two dyads with three<br />

spacers, for the presence <strong>of</strong> alkyl substituents on the central spacer. Upon<br />

excitation <strong>of</strong> the Ru(II)-based chromophore, the rate constants <strong>of</strong> photoinduced<br />

electron transfer (process a in the above general scheme) have been<br />

measured by time-resolved emission <strong>and</strong> transient absorption techniques in<br />

the nanosecond <strong>and</strong> picosecond time domains [6, 92]. The values for Ru-ph-<br />

Rh, Ru-ph2-Rh, <strong>and</strong>Ru-ph3-Rh (Chart 1), when plotted as a function <strong>of</strong> the<br />

metal–metal distance r (Fig. 8), display an exponential decrease (Eq. 9):<br />

k = k(0) exp(– βr). (9)<br />

Chart 1

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