Photoactive Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States in 3d6 Complexes with Cr0, MnI, FeII, and CoIII

N Sinha, OS Wenger - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many coordination complexes and organometallic compounds with the 4d6 and 5d6
valence electron configurations have outstanding photophysical and photochemical …

Luminescent first-row transition metal complexes

C Wegeberg, OS Wenger - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Precious and rare elements have traditionally dominated inorganic photophysics and
photochemistry, but now we are witnessing a paradigm shift toward cheaper and more …

Accessing photoredox transformations with an iron (III) photosensitizer and green light

A Aydogan, RE Bangle, A Cadranel… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Efficient excited-state electron transfer between an iron (III) photosensitizer and organic
electron donors was realized with green light irradiation. This advance was enabled by the …

The great strides of iron photosensitizers for contemporary organic photoredox catalysis: On our way to the holy grail?

F Glaser, A Aydogan, B Elias… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
The scarcity of 2 nd and 3 rd row transition metals such as ruthenium, iridium, rhodium and
osmium, coupled with a global desire for sustainable chemistry has led to the resurgence of …

Molecular Design Principles to Elongate the Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited-State Lifetimes of Square-Planar Nickel (II) Complexes

T Ogawa, N Sinha, B Pfund, A Prescimone… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Square-planar NiII complexes and their electronically excited states play key roles in cross-
coupling catalysis and could offer new opportunities to complement well-known …

Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes

U Bergmann, J Kern, RW Schoenlein, P Wernet… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The metal centres in metalloenzymes and molecular catalysts are responsible for the
rearrangement of atoms and electrons during complex chemical reactions, and they enable …

Photoactive iron complexes: more sustainable, but still a challenge

P Dierks, Y Vukadinovic, M Bauer - Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
On transition metals such as iron rests lots of hope to replace precious metal catalysts in the
field of photochemistry for a more sustainable future. Indeed, significant progress has been …

First‐Row d6 Metal Complex Enables Photon Upconversion and Initiates Blue Light‐Dependent Polymerization with Red Light

C Wang, C Wegeberg, OS Wenger - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photosensitizers for sensitized triplet‐triplet annihilation upconversion (sTTA‐UC) often rely
on precious heavy metals, whereas coordination complexes based on abundant first‐row …

KiMoPack: A python Package for Kinetic Modeling of the Chemical Mechanism

C Müller, T Pascher, A Eriksson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, we present KiMoPack, an analysis tool for the ki netic mo deling of transient
spectroscopic data. KiMoPack enables a state-of-the-art analysis routine including data …

Progress in the theory of x-ray spectroscopy: From quantum chemistry to machine learning and ultrafast dynamics

CD Rankine, TJ Penfold - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of high-brilliance third-and fourth-generation light sources such as
synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), the emergence of laboratory-based X …