Quantum chemistry and Dick Stufkens photochemistry

摘要

A survey of the quantum chemical results obtained for several MLCT complexes studied in Amsterdam is presented in order to illustrate the progress made in this field from the beginning of the 1980s when excited states properties were analyzed in terms of bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals (MO). Nowadays the photoactive states and the main features of the absorption spectra can be determined without any ambiguity. The time scales of elementary processes such as direct ultra-fast dissociations or intersystem crossing processes, are also readily available.