Starting from the late seventies, the progressively increased availability of synchrotron light
sources allowed the execution of experiments requiring a high X-ray flux in a continuous …

Utilization of renewable energies for catalytically generating value-added chemicals is
highly desirable in this era of rising energy demands and climate change impacts. Artificial …

The ultrafast light-activated electrocyclic ring-opening reaction of 1, 3-cyclohexadiene is a
fundamental prototype of photochemical pericyclic reactions. Generally, these reactions are …

We review the tremendous advances in ultrafast X-ray science, over the past 15 years,
making the best use of new ultrashort X-ray sources including table-top or large-scale …

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

In 1974, the metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) excited state,[Ru (bpy) 3] 2+*, was
shown to undergo electron transfer quenching by methylviologen dication (MV2+), inspiring …

X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a powerful probe of molecular structure, but it has
previously been too slow to track the earliest dynamics after photoexcitation. We …

The description of ultrafast nonadiabatic chemical dynamics during molecular photo-
transformations remains challenging because electronic and nuclear configurations impact …

The state of art of the DFT description of charge-transfer electronic excited states of (mostly)
d6 transition metal complexes is presented and discussed. A brief theoretical background …

Conspectus The properties of transition metal complexes are interesting not only for their
potential applications in solar energy conversion, OLEDs, molecular electronics, biology …