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PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF HALOGENATED TRANSITION METAL DIANIONS.

ALEXANDER N. TARNOVSKY, IGOR L. ZHELDAKOV, EVGENIIA V. BUTAEVA AND ANDREY S. MERESHCHENKO, Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 43402.

Separation of two negative charges in aqueous PtBr₆^2- is investigated by means of femtosecond broadband pump-probe spectroscopy using several excitation wavelengths, in concert with time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy and DFT/TDDFT calculations.