Importantly, our results are consistent with the time-resolved XES experiment of Kunnus et al. , in particular supporting the branching of excited-state population into 3 MLCT and 3 MC on early subps timescales. As TOAS, in contrast to XES, is not directly sensitive to the electronic state, it is reasonable to expect that the <100 fs features of the TOAS data should in fact also contain a 3 MLCT → 3 MC component (although was assigned previously solely to 1 MLCT → 3 MLCT). By analysis of coherent oscillations in the Fe-N/Fe-C bond lengths, we below show that this interpretation should indeed be correct, evidencing that the branching does occur.