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Title: Aqueous solution photophysics and photochemistry of dihalo- and aquahalobis(ethylenediamine)rhodium(III). Effect of nonreacting amine ligands on excited-state halide dissociation and excited-state rearrangement

Journal Article · · Inorg. Chem.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ic00258a015· OSTI ID:6163622

Ligand field excitation of cis- and trans-(Rh(en)2X2) (X = Cl, Br) in acidic aqueous solution leads to halide photoaquation producing (Rh(en)2(H2O)X)S . Room-temperature phosphorescence lifetimes of the four dihalo complexes in aqueous solution were measured by using a mode-locked laser and time-correlated single-photon detection and found to be about 2 ns in each case. Excited-state halide dissociation and nonradiative deactivation rate constants were evaluated from a combination of the lifetimes and the photoaquation quantum yields. The halide dissociation rate constants range from 1.9 x 10Y (cis-dichloro) to 2.1 x 10X s (trans-dibromo) and are in all cases smaller (by a factor of 1.6-15) than the rate constants previously determined for the tetraammine and bis(1,3-propanediamine) analogues. Also described are the syntheses of the dithionate salts of trans- and cis-(Rh(en)2(H2O)X)S , and quantum yields for the cis/trans interconversion of each isomeric pair in aqueous solution at 25C are given.

Research Organization:
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Univ., Frederiksberg C, Denmark
OSTI ID:
6163622
Journal Information:
Inorg. Chem.; (United States), Vol. 26:11
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English