Metal-to-ligand charge-transfer transitions

FIGURE 16.33 In a ligand-to-metal charge-transfer transition, an energetically excited electron migrates from a ligand to the central metal ion. This type of transition is responsible for the intense purple of the permanganate ion, MnCF,. ... 

In heterogeneous photoredox systems also a surface complex may act as the chromophore. This means that in this case not a bimolecular but a unimolecular photoredox reaction takes place, since electron transfer occurs within the lightabsorbing species, i.e. through a ligand-to-metal charge-transfer transition within the surface complex. This has been suggested for instance for the photochemical reductive dissolution of iron(III)(hydr)oxides (Waite and Morel, 1984 Siffert and Sulzberger, 1991). For continuous irradiation the quantum yield is then ... 

These three types of clusters all involve one electron orbital. They provide a basis for the description of the d-d (i. e. ligand field) transitions and the ligand to metal charge transfer transitions which are responsible for most of the UV-visible spectra and opti-... 

There are several M(Por) whose absorption spectra are normal but whose decay processes are radiationless or luminescent. These pseudo-normal-type metals have partly filled d or f levels too high to cause ligand to metal charge transfer transitions [Viv—0,5 = Cr11, S = 1,2 Molv, 5 = 0 ... 

Ligand-to-metal charge transfer transitions, excited states,... 

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