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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 53, Issue 15, Pages 3863-3867Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201310884
Keywords
intersystem crossing; LIESST; ligand-field states; spin crossover; ultrafast spectroscopy
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [200020_137567]
- CNRS, Region Bretagne
- ANR [09-BLAN-0212]
- Europe (FEDER)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200020_137567] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Light-induced excited spin-state trapping (LIESST) in iron(II) spin-crossover compounds, that is, the light-induced population of the high-spin (S=2) state below the thermal transition temperature, was discovered thirty years ago. For irradiation into metal-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) bands of the low-spin (S=0) species the acknowledged sequence takes the system from the initially excited (MLCT)-M-1 to the high-spin state via the (MLCT)-M-3 state within ca. 150fs, thereby bypassing low-lying ligand-field (LF) states. Nevertheless, these play a role, as borne out by the observation of LIESST and reverse-LIESST on irradiation directly into the LF bands for systems with only high-energy MLCT states. Herein we elucidate the ultrafast reverse-LIESST pathway by identifying the lowest energy S=1 LF state as an intermediate state with a lifetime of 39ps for the light-induced high-spin to low-spin conversion on irradiation into the spin-allowed LF transition of the high-spin species in the NIR.
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