Elias, BenjaminTroian-Gautier, LudovicRubens, JulienJulienRubens2025-05-142025-05-142025-05-142024https://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/38716In the context of the current societal challenges, the scientific community recognizes the need for a paradigm shift. Overpopulation and overconsumption significantly impact the Earth's ecosystems due to fossil fuel-powered industrial processes. To address this issue, researchers are exploring more sustainable ways to produce energy by shifting the energy supply to activate reactions. One approach is photocatalysis, which utilizes light to activate reactions. To effectively capture light and activate reactions, photosensitizers are required. These chemical species capture light and transfer stored energy, either through energy transfer or electron transfer, to a substrate in solution. During this energy transfer process, complex equilibriums occur before yielding the activated substrate and the photosensitizer as separate species in solution. This step is called cage-escape and is crucial for reaction efficiency. If compounds react but do not separate in solution, subsequent reactions will not occur. Several studies have investigated the parameters that favour the cage-escape process to maximize activated species in solution. This master thesis aims to investigate the cage-escape processes with chiral systems to explore the influence of chirality on the cage-escape yields. The chiral systems of choice will consist of Ru(II), Ir(III), and Co(III) complexes.Cage-escapeComplexesRutheniumIridiumPhotosensitizersPhotochemistryEnantiomersSpectroscopyPhotocatalysistext::thesis::master thesisthesis:46145