Which process initiates phosphorescence in a metal-ligand complex?

💡 Explanation

Intersystem crossing causes phosphorescence because it allows a transition from a singlet excited state to a triplet state with a longer lifetime, therefore emission persists rather than fluorescence which decays rapidly.

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