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Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2019 Apr 2;141(15):6385–6391. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b01885

Table 3.

Ground- and Excited-State Redox Potentials for Ru(btfmb)₃²⁺ in CH₂ Cl₂^a

entry	catalyst	ΔG_ES	E(Ru^2+/+)	E(Ru^2+*/+)
1	3a	2.17 eV	−0.65 V	+1.52 V
2	3c	2.05 eV	−0.89 V	+1.16 V
3	3d	2.01 eV	−0.93 V	+1.08 V
4	3e	1.99 eV	−0.95 V	+1.04 V

Electrochemical potentials were measured through cyclic voltammetry in a standard three-electrode set-up, scan rate = 100 mV/s. A 100 mM solution of a n-Bu₄N⁺X^– salt that matched the photocatalyst counteranion was used as a supporting electrolyte. Potentials were corrected to SCE through an external ferrocene reference.