Primary charge separation in photoinduced multielectron storage systems. A dinuclear ruthenium(II) species featuring a charge-separated state with a lifetime of 1.3 µs

The primary photoinduced charge separation and recombination processes occurring in a dinuclear Ru(II) complex capable to perform multielectron storage upon light excitation have been studied in different solvents: the charge-separated state obtained in dichloromethane is, to the best of our knowledge, the longest-lived ever reported for a ruthenium polypyridine complex.