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Article
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Ultrafast transient absorption spectra in the deep to near UV range (212-384 nm) were measured for the [Cu-II(MeOH)(5)Cl](+) complexes in methanol following 255-nm excitation of the complex into the ligand-to-metal charge-transfer excited state. The electronically excited complex undergoes sub-200 fs radiationless decay, predominantly via back electron transfer, to the hot electronic ground state followed by fast vibrational relaxation on a 0.4-4 Ps time scale. A minor photochemical channel is Cu-Cl bond dissociation, leading to the reduction of copper(H) to copper(I) and the formation of MeOH center dot Cl charge-transfer complexes. The depletion of ground-state [Cu-II(MeOH)(5)Cl](+) perturbs the equilibrium between several forms of copper(II) complexes present in solution. Complete re-equilibration between [Cu-II(MeOH)(5)Cl](+) and [Cu-II(MeOH)(4)Cl-2] is established on a 10-500 ps time scale, slower than methanol diffusion, suggesting that the involved ligand exchange mechanism is dissociative.
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Mereshchenko, Andrey S.; Pal, Suman K.; Karabaeva, Kanykey E.; El-Khoury, Patrick Z.; and Tarnovsky, Alexander N., "Photochemistry Of Monochloro Complexes Of Copper(ii) In Methanol Probed By Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy" (2012). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 117.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/chem_pub/117
Publication Date
3-2012
Publication Title
Journal Of Physical Chemistry A
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/jp208532u
Start Page No.
2791
End Page No.
2799