van der Veen Renske M, Milne Chris J, El Nahhas Amal, Lima Frederico A, Pham Van-Thai, Best Jonathan, Weinstein Julia A, Borca Camelia N, Abela Rafael, Bressler Christian, Chergui Majed
Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2009;48(15):2711-4. doi: 10.1002/anie.200805946.
Metallica: A large contraction of the Pt-Pt bond in the triplet excited state of the photoreactive Pt(2)(P(2)O(5)H(2))(4) ion is determined by time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (see picture). The strengthening of the Pt-Pt interaction is accompanied by a weakening of the ligand coordination bonds, resulting in an elongation of the platinum-ligand bond that is determined for the first time.