Charge transfer transition state

Direct probe of ligand field and charge transfer excited states Greater sensitivity than ABS in observing weak transitions and greater resolution due to differences in circular polarization complimentary selection rules aiding in assignment of electronic transitions... 

Table 21. Charge-Transfer Transitions for Various dx Ground States of Sandwich Complexes.

As it concerns the band in the UV region (at 315 nm in the present case), Benesi and Hildebrand [5] assigned this absorption to a charge-transfer transition, where the phenyl ring acts as an electron donor (D) and the iodine as an electron acceptor. The interaction can be described in resonance terms as D-I2 <-> D+I2", the band being assigned to the transition from the ground non polar state to the excited polar state. 

The optical properties of organic dyes (Fig. ld-f, Table 1) are controlled by the nature of the electronic transition(s) involved [4], The emission occurs either from an electronic state delocalized over the whole chromophore (the corresponding fluorophores are termed here as resonant or mesomeric dyes) or from a charge transfer (CT) state formed via intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) from the initially excited electronic state (the corresponding fluorophores are referred to as CT dyes) [4], Bioanalytically relevant fluorophores like fluoresceins, rhodamines, most 4,4 -difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacenes (BODIPY dyes), and cyanines (symmetric... 

Optical charge transfer (CT) is commonly observed in un-symmetrical molecules or molecular complexes in which there are sites of distinctly different ionization energies and electron affinities. The origin and properties of optical charge transfer transitions provide the basis for this account. A convenient place to begin chemically is with mixed-valence compounds and two examples are shown below (1-3). In the first (eq 1), the sites of different oxidation states are held in close... 

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