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Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds

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

moiety with <strong>of</strong> coordinated chloride lig<strong>and</strong>s. In fact, contrary to what happens<br />

for common Rh(III) polypyridine units (e.g., Rh(bpy)3 3+ ,Rh(phen)3 3+ )<br />

where one-electron reduction is a quasi-reversible process, mixed-lig<strong>and</strong><br />

units containing halide ions (e.g., Rh(bpy)2Cl2 + ,Rh(phen)2Cl2 + )undergo<br />

strongly irreversible two-electron reductions accompanied by prompt halide<br />

lig<strong>and</strong> loss [78, 104]. While the use <strong>of</strong> these units as electron acceptors can<br />

be <strong>of</strong> interest towards photoinduced electron collection <strong>and</strong> multi-electron<br />

catalysis (see Sect. 3.4), from a kinetic viewpoint the large reorganizational<br />

energies involved are likely to lead to slow electron transfer rates.<br />

3.2.2<br />

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-Rh(III) Conjugates<br />

Though structurally quite different, the porphyrin-Rh(III) conjugates thoroughly<br />

studied by Harriman et al. [105] behave with regard to photoinduced<br />

electron transfer rather similarly to the above-discussed Ru(II)-Rh(III) dyads.<br />

The systems contain a zinc porphyrin unit connected directly with one (21)or<br />

via a phenylene spacer with two (22) rhodium terpyridine units.<br />

The electron transfer processes thermodynamically allowed in these systems<br />

are indicated in Eqs. 10–14, where both 21 <strong>and</strong> 22 are schematized as

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