Photochemistry of Metal Complexes

The photochemistry of metal complexes has been extensively studied since the 1960s and has been the subject of a number of monographs and reviews [1,11,14-19]. Systematic investigations have concentrated on or d ... 

While the area of the photochemistry of metal complexes with DNA is still at an early stage of development, substantial progress has been made in the last ten years. It is apparent from the different chapters of this review that a knowledge of the photophysimetal complex s excited state can be used to predict the type of reaction caused to the DNA. 

Pressure-Tuning Photochemistry of Metal Complexes in Solution (Eldik... 

Otvos JW, Casti TE, and Calvin M (1984) Photochemistry of metal complexes conference, Tokyo, ERAB 9 50335... 

Photochemical methods offer a convenient tool to study intra- and interprotein ET because of their time resolution and selectivity. Various mechanistic and design approaches based on photochemistry of metal complexes have been undertaken. Most of the studies on protein electron transfer processes have been done for hae-moproteins using among others ruthenium complex as a photosensitizer, modified haemoproteins in which haem iron is substituted by another metal (mainly Zn), and CO-bonded haem proteins [6,7],... 

Reviews have appeared of the photophysics of molybdenum complexes, primary and secondary processes in organometallic chemistry, flash photolysis of Pe(CO)5 and Cr(CO)g, dinuclear manganese carbonyl compounds, the photochemistry of metal complexes isolated in low temperature matrices, cluster complexes, diene complexes, photoproduction of coordinativeiy unsaturated species containing rhodium or iridium, and redox chemiluminescence of organometallic compounds.Synthetic and metal organic photochemistry in industry has also been reviewed. 

One notable area of chemistry that can offer some prospects for enhanced displacement of ligands is photochemistry. The photochemistry of metal complexes has been extensively studied and reviewed (16, 282), and it is not proposed to cover this area in any detail. One of the complications in photochemistry of metal complexes is the marked change in reactivity even within a triad of the d block. For example, the reaction modes of the simple [M(NH3)5N3]2+ ions for the cobalt triad vary clearly. For cobalt(III), the photochemistry is dominated by an intramolecular redox reaction (93) whereas for iridium(III), reac-... 

PRESSURE-TUNING PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF METAL COMPLEXES IN SOLUTION... 

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