The study of the electrochemical behavior (CV) of 9-anthrylmethylcyclopentadienyl(AnCH
2C
5H
4) derivatives of rhodium(I) and iridium(I) of formu
la [M(
5-AnCH
2C
5H
4)L
2] (M= Rh or Ir; L =
2-C
2H
4,
1-CO,
2-C
8H
14, PPh
3; L
2 =
4-C
8H
12),
1-
8, in strictly aproticconditions, allows a satisfactory interpretation of the observed electrode processes and givesinformation about the location of the redox sites along with the thermodynamic characterization of the corresponding redox processes. These data show that the occurrence of anintramolecu
lar charge-transfer process between the photoexcited 9-anthryl group and thecyclopentadienylmetal unit is a possible route for the observed anthracenic fluorescencequenching in the compounds
1-
8. Moreover, a study was carried out on the redox behaviorof these complexes under chemical activation. The one-electron oxidation of compounds
1-
8by thallium(III) trifluoroacetate leads to the formation of the corresponding cation radicals,whose highly resolved X-band EPR spectra were fully interpreted by computer simu
lationas well as by semiempirical and DFT calcu
lations of spin density distribution.