White Light Snapshot of Non-Equilibrium High-Spin State in a Molecular Crystal

International audience; The spin-crossover compound [(TPA)Fe(TCC)]PF6 was experimentally investigated using time-resolved optical pump and supercontinuum probe technique. Changes of VIS optical density at thermal equilibrium of a crystal with different high-spin/low-spin fractions are compared to changes recorded picoseconds after femtosecond laser excitation. A white light snapshot of the high-spin state at 180 K is extracted from time-resolved spectra. Our results indicate that the temperature of the electronic state affects the absorption spectra of high- and low-spin states.