Energy is the most important issue of the 21st century. About 85% of our energy comes from
fossil fuels, a finite resource unevenly distributed beneath the Earth's surface. Reserves of …

Ruthenium compounds, particularly Ru (II) polypyridine complexes, are the class of
transition metal complexes which has been most deeply investigated from a photochemical …

Because of a unique combination of chemical stability, redox properties, excited-state
reactivity, and excited-state lifetime,[Ru (bpy) 3] 2+(bpy= 2, 2′-bipyridine) and related …

Following bio-inspired guidelines, solar-powered water oxidation can be exploited for
hydrogen generation by direct photocatalytic water splitting. This reaction poses some …

Rational design of supramolecular systems for application in photonic devices requires a
clear understanding of both the mechanism of energy and electron transfer processes and …

Resonance Raman spectroscopy has become a powerful tool to study excited-state
geometries, excited-state charge distributions and photoinduced reaction dynamics in …

In this review, we first discuss the photophysics reported in the literature for mononuclear
ruthenium complexes bearing ligands with extended aromaticity such as dipyrido [3, 2-a: 2' …

A combination of cyclic voltammetry (CV), UV− vis− NIR spectroscopy and
spectroelectrochemistry, hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS)[including depolarization studies] …

The early picosecond time scale excited-state dynamics of the paradigm tris (2, 2′-
bipyridyl) Ruthenium (II)([Ru (bpy) 3] 2+) and related complexes have been examined by …

A new family of mono-and dinuclear ruthenium polypyridyl complexes containing 5-
aryltetrazolate ligands such as the deprotonated form of 4-(1 H-tetrazol-5-yl) benzonitrile (4 …