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Title: Ultrafast electronic deactivation and vibrational dynamics of photoexcited uranium(IV) porphyrin sandwich complexes

Journal Article · · Journal of Physical Chemistry; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/j100130a015· OSTI ID:5712031
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  1. Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
  2. Univ. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (United States)

The ground- and excited-state optical spectra of two U[sup IV] bis(porphyrin) sandwich complexes reveal features characteristic of porphyrins held within van der Waals contact. The photoexcited complexes exhibit ultrafast (approximately 1 ps) deactivation to the ground electronic state in a multistep process involving intersystem crossing into the triplet manifold and subsequent relaxation via ligand-field (f,f) excited state(s). This ultrafast and highly energetic electronic deactivation is followed by complex time-dependent spectral changes on the picosecond time scale that are ascribed to vibrational relaxation in the ground electronic state. 22 refs., 5 figs.

OSTI ID:
5712031
Journal Information:
Journal of Physical Chemistry; (United States), Vol. 97:28; ISSN 0022-3654
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English