“…Lower limits for the singlet energies of DCME [3], diethylfumarate and diethylmaleate were estimated from the onset of their S 0 -S 1 absorption. [a] E red [V] [a] DMN [4] 3.78 [21] 2.65 [22,23] 1.1 [21] DCME [3] b 4.5 ± À 1.60 [21] Benzophenone [24] 3.26 2.96 À 1.83 Diethylfumarate b 4.5 2.65 [25] À 1.45 [26] Diethylmaleate b 4.5 3.2 AE 0.1 [25] À 1.70 [27] [a] Versus standard calomel electrode in acetonitrile. triplet nature of the charge-transfer state formed via sensitised excitation as well as the fact that it is (in polar solvents) the lowest triplet state available to the DMN[3]DCME system.…”