title: Gas-phase spectroscopy of singly reduced tris(bipyridine)ruthenium ions, Ru(bipy)3(+).
abstract: Light absorption in the visible region by isolated Ru(bipy)3(+) (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine) monocations, prepared in vacuo by reduction of dications in collisional electron transfer from cesium atoms, was recorded using photodissociation mass spectroscopy and found to be broad and similar to that of acetonitrile-solvated ions (maximum at 520 nm).
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. sbn@phys.au.dk.
authors.forename: Camilla Skinnerup
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Byskov
authors.forename: J Mathias
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: Steen Brøndsted
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Nielsen