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other factors such as deprotonation of phenol coupled to
oxidation might also be of importance.
Excitation at 460 nm of the Ru-cT-NDI complex in the
presence of 10 mM ascorbate reveals the appearance of several
NDI•− radical features within ca. 100 ns, as shown by the
appearance of absorption bands at 487, 532, and 612 nm
(Figure 3). No spectral features of a RuI intermediate were
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was partially supported by the ANR (Project ANR
2010 BLAN 0926), the EU/Energy SOLAR-H2 project (FP7
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