Organometallics photoreactions, mechanism

Lees AJ. Quantitative photochemistry of organometallic complexes insight to their photophysical and photoreactivity mechanisms. Coord Chem Rev 2001 211 255-78. 

Lees, A. J., Quantitative Photochemistry of Organometallic Complexes Insight to Their Photophysical and Photoreactivity Mechanisms, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2001, 211, 255 278. 

Different techniques have been used to study the products of photoreactions of organometallic compounds for example, irradiation of the arene complexes [CpFe() -arene)]+ resulted in the substitution of the arene by solvent or other potential ligands present in solution. In solutions containing an epoxide monomer, this photochemical reaction generated a species that initiated polymerization. Ion cyclotron resonance Fourier transform mass spectrometry and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry were used to elucidate the mechanism of these photoinitiated polymerizations. 

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