The Comparative Photochemical Behaviour of Dibenzenechromium and Benzenetricarbonyl Chromium
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- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B
- Vol. 31 (8) , 1091-1095
- https://doi.org/10.1515/znb-1976-0819
Abstract
In comparison with (C6H6)Cr(CO)3, (C6H6)2Cr is relatively light stable. The major part of the light energy absorbed by (C6H6)2Cr leads neither to its decomposition or ligand exchange, nor can it be transferred to common low energy triplet acceptors. Internal dissipation of energy, either by rapid conversion to the ground state or by rapid reversible isomerization, must be an important process. In the case of (C6H6)Cr(CO)3, the main pathway to the previously reported lightinduced exchange of benzene involves an intermediate which is suggested to be (benzene)-dicarbonylchromium (1) and not a one-step dissociation of the excited molecule, to give Cr(CO)3 and benzene1b: 1 is also of major importance for the exchange of CO.Keywords
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