Abstract
The discoveries that nitric oxide (a.k.a. nitrogen monoxide) serves important roles in mammalian
bioregulation and immunology have stimulated intense interest in the chemistry and biochemistry of NO
and derivatives such as metal nitrosyl complexes. Also of interest are strategies to deliver NO to biological
targets on demand. One such strategy would be to employ a precursor which displays relatively low thermal
reactivity but is photochemically active to release NO. This proposition led us to investigate laser flash
and continuous photolysis kinetics of nitrosyl complexes such as the Roussin's iron-sulfur-nitrosyl cluster
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