%0 Journal Article %A Murahashi, Tetsuro %A Higuchi, Yutaka %A Katoh, Tetsuya %A Kurosawa, Hideo %D 2002 %T Photoinduced Face-Inversion of Conjugated Tetraene Ligands on a Pd−Pd−Pd Moiety %U https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Photoinduced_Face-Inversion_of_Conjugated_Tetraene_Ligands_on_a_Pd_Pd_Pd_Moiety/3641481 %R 10.1021/ja0208254.s001 %2 https://acs.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/5730288 %K tetraene ligands %K photoinduced isomerization %K BAr f %K rac %K Conjugated Tetraene Ligands %K meso isomers %K Pd 3 %K sandwich tripalladium complexes %X The linear sandwich tripalladium complexes [Pd3{Ar(CHCH)4Ar}2[BArf]2 (Ar = Ph, p-t-Bu-C6H4, p-styryl-C6H4) undergo photoinduced isomerization involving face-inversion of the tetraene ligands. Irradiation of these complexes with visible light (>510 nm) resulted in rac (staggered sandwich) to meso (eclipsed sandwich) isomerization. The structures of rac and meso isomers are determined by X-ray crystallographic analyses. %I ACS Publications