The electronic dynamics in terms of the diabatic populations (defined by the characters of the electronic eigenstates at the ground-state equilibrium geometry) is shown in Fig. , together with a kinetic model. Starting with 100% of the populations in the 1 MLCT manifold, the electronic population bifurcates via ISC into 3 MC and 3 MLCT states. The 3 MC population reaches a final value of about 31% with a trend to increase, while the 3 MLCT states reach a final population of 62% with a trend to decrease ( 3 MLCT life time of 100 +47 -32 ps). The singlet ground-state (black line at the very bottom) is very slowly populated with a time constant of 90 ± 15 ps. The bifurcation into the MLCT and MC triplet manifolds occurs with time constants of 311 ± 6 fs and 687 ± 20 fs, respectively, populating the states with a ratio of about 2.2 : 1. The aforementioned "cold" singlet population, labeled as 1 Cold, is populated slowly with a constant of about 2.8 ps. Accordingly, the final populations at t = 5000 fs are 62% 3 MLCT, 31% 3 MC, 6% cold 1 MLCT, and 2% ground state.