Photochemistry inorganic

The separation between inorganic and organic chemistry is rather artificial and there are many areas of overlap especially in the field of metal complexes. Within a narrow definition, inorganic photoinduced processes involve a metal which has its own electronically excited states. We consider 

The systems discussed in this chapter have been chosen because of then-relationship to substitution reaction systems discussed previously. For a broader assessment of this area, various books and review articles should be consulted. 

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Assigning reactive excited states in inorganic photochemistry. A. W. Adamson, Comments Inorg. 

Tanimoto, Y. and Fujiwara, Y. (2003) Handbook of photochemistry and photobiology in Inorganic Photochemistry, vol. 1 (ed. H. S. Nalwa), American Scientific Publishers, Chapter 10. 

Some future directions in inorganic photochemistry have been outlined by Adamson (56). A pessimistic picture of the practical uses of solar energy conversion systems is painted, but a rosy view of the academic future of the subject is held. It is anticipated that there will be further examination of thermally equilibrated excited (thexi) states—their lifetimes, and spectroscopic and structural properties—and an extension of present efforts to organometallics and metalloproteins is also envisaged (56). The interpretation of spectroscopic data from excited states will continue to be controversial and require future experimentation (57). 

Adamson AW, Fleischauer PD (eds) (1975) Concepts of inorganic photochemistry. Wiley, New York. 

Organic and Inorganic Photochemistry, edited by V. Ramamurthy and Kirk S. Schanze... 

It will become evident from this discussion of cobalt(III) and chromium(III) photochemistry that a fortunate combination of many factors makes these systems especially amenable to mechanistic investigation this is not the case for most other inorganic systems. For this reason, the progress made toward understanding the photochemical reactions of cobalt(III) and chromium(III) complexes may not be easily duplicated in other areas and it is useful to inquire whether conclusions reached here can be generalized. It is my belief that they can, and this and the next section are intended to place the subsequent discussion in the perspective of inorganic photochemistry. 

Two rather different points of view have been maintained concerning the general question of mechanisms in inorganic photochemistry. This section defines both of these and attempts to indicate the evidence in favor of each subsequent sections will consider in detail the applicability of various mechanistic proposals to the study of the photochemistry of cobalt(III) and chromium(III). 

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