A very large Rh-Rh bond shortening on excitation of the [Rh2(1,8-diisocyano-p-menthane)4]2+ ion by time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Philip Coppens; Oksana Gerlits; Ivan I Vorontsov; Andrey Yu Kovalevsky; Yu-Sheng Chen; Tim Graber; Milan Gembicky; Irina V Novozhilova

doi:10.1039/b409463h

A very large Rh-Rh bond shortening on excitation of the [Rh2(1,8-diisocyano-p-menthane)4]2+ ion by time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Chem Commun (Camb). 2004 Oct 7:(19):2144-5. doi: 10.1039/b409463h. Epub 2004 Aug 19.

Authors

Philip Coppens¹, Oksana Gerlits, Ivan I Vorontsov, Andrey Yu Kovalevsky, Yu-Sheng Chen, Tim Graber, Milan Gembicky, Irina V Novozhilova

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA. coppens@acsu.buffalo.edu

PMID: 15467843
DOI: 10.1039/b409463h

Abstract

A very large Rh-Rh contraction of approximately 0.85 A occurs on excitation of the [Rh(2)(1,8-diisocyano-p-menthane)(4)](2+) ion to its triplet state.