A pulsed-laser stimulated biphotonic photoreduction of hexa-amminecobalt(III)
Abstract
A photoredox process has been discovered in the 337 nm pulsed laser photolysis of Co(NH3)63+ which appears to involve two consecutive single photon absorptions; the process is accounted for by generation of a photoactive, charge-transfer state from absorption by a ligand-field excited state, and has considerable mechanistic significance.