“…However, the difference spectrum with and without the laser pump pulse clearly displays oscillatory features that support the evidence for the bond lengthening in the excited state (Lovaasen et al, 2010). The tungsten-alkylidyne (or carbyne) with formal d 2 octahedral structure can bind ligands with diverse electronic structures, including strong acids and donors and hard and soft bases (Bocarsly et al, 1985(Bocarsly et al, , 1987Carter et al, 1991;Pollagi et al, 1994;Trammell et al, 1995;Schoch et al, 1996;Xue et al, 1996Xue et al, , 1997Xue et al, , 1998Lee et al, 1998;Cavalheiro et al, 1999;Mayr et al, 1999;Lai et al, 2001;Simpson et al, 2003;Jelliss & Wampler, 2005), which tunes the photophysical and photoredox properties or even changes the orbital character of the emissive state among d ! *, !…”