Photochemistry and photophysics of coordination compounds of the main group metals

Abstract

The photoproperties of main group metal complexes with the electron configurations s 2 (e.g. Tl + , Sb 3+ , Te 4+ ) and s° (e.g. Tl 3+ , Pb 4+ ) were studied on the basis of a general concept which relates characteristic excited states to typical photophysical and photochemical processes. The photochemistry is dominated by metal-centered sp (s 2 ) and ligand to metal charge transfer (s0) excited states which are capable of inducing inter- and intramolecular redox reactions. © 1992, IUPAC