Ferrocene |
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| The chemical structure of Ferrocene is shown at the right. The absorption and fluorescence emission spectra are shown below. The structure, absorption, and fluorescence data were all obtained from the PhotochemCAD package by Jonathan Lindsey. This excellent program allows rapid comparison of spectra and enables one to do a variety of photochemically relevant calculations. |
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Absorption
This is a graph of the molar extinction coefficient of Ferrocene dissolved in cyclohexane. It was measured by R. A. Fuh on summer, 95 [H. Du, R. A. Fuh, J. Li, A. Corkan, J. S. Lindsey, "PhotochemCAD: A computer-aided design and research tool in photochemistry," Photochemistry and Photobiology, 68, 141-142, 1998]. Ferrocene has a molar extinction coefficient of 96 M-1cm-1 at 442 nm [R. E. Bozak, "Photochemistry in the metallocenes," in Advances in Photochemistry} editor = {J. N. Pitts, Jr. and G. S. Hammond and W. A. Noyes, Jr., 8, (New York), 227-244, 1971]. The fluorescence yield is reported to be essentially zero [R. E. Bozak, "Photochemistry in the metallocenes," in Advances in Photochemistry} editor = {J. N. Pitts, Jr. and G. S. Hammond and W. A. Noyes, Jr., 8, (New York), 227-244, 1971]. We did not attempt to collect the fluorescence spectrum. |
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