One Photon Yields Two Isomerizations: Large Atomic Displacements during Electronic Excited-State Dynamics in Ruthenium Sulfoxide Complexes
摘要:
Photochromic compounds efficiently transduce photonic energy to potential energy for excited-state bond-breaking and bond-forming reactions. A critical feature of this reaction is the nature of the electronic excited-state potential energy surface and how this surface facilitates large nuclear displacements and rearrangements. We have prepared two photochromic ruthenium sulfoxide complexes that feature two isomerization reactions following absorption of a single photon. We show by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy that this reaction is complete within a few hundred picoseconds and suggest that isomerization occurs along a conical intersection seam formed by the ground-state and excited-state potential energy surfaces.
Stereoselective Synthesis of Disubstituted Butadienes via Copper-Mediated Coupling of Alkenyl Silanes
作者:David Spring、David Blackwell、Warren Galloway
DOI:10.1055/s-0030-1261150
日期:2011.9
A strategy is described for the stereoselective synthesis of substituted (E)-, (Z)-, and α-disubstituted butadienes from terminal alkynes by the copper-mediated coupling of geometrically-defined alkenyl silanes. Proof-of-concept results that demonstrate the feasibility of this approach are presented.
One Photon Yields Two Isomerizations: Large Atomic Displacements during Electronic Excited-State Dynamics in Ruthenium Sulfoxide Complexes
作者:Komal Garg、Albert W. King、Jeffrey J. Rack
DOI:10.1021/ja409262r
日期:2014.2.5
Photochromic compounds efficiently transduce photonic energy to potential energy for excited-state bond-breaking and bond-forming reactions. A critical feature of this reaction is the nature of the electronic excited-state potential energy surface and how this surface facilitates large nuclear displacements and rearrangements. We have prepared two photochromic ruthenium sulfoxide complexes that feature two isomerization reactions following absorption of a single photon. We show by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy that this reaction is complete within a few hundred picoseconds and suggest that isomerization occurs along a conical intersection seam formed by the ground-state and excited-state potential energy surfaces.