Design and studies on supramolecular ferrocene-porphyrin-fullerene constructs for generating long-lived charge separated states

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D'Souza, Francis
Chitta, Raghu
Gadde, Suresh
Islam, D-M Shafiqul
Schumacher, Amy Lea
Zandler, Melvin E.
Araki, Yasuyaki
Ito, Osamu
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2006-12-21
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Projects
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The journal of physical chemistry. B. 2006 Dec 21; 110(50): 25240-50.
Abstract

Supramolecular ferrocene-porphyrin-fullerene constructs, in which covalently linked ferrocene-porphyrin-crown ether compounds were self-assembled with alkylammonium cation functionalized fullerenes, have been designed to achieve stepwise electron transfer and hole shift to generate long-lived charge separated states. The adopted crown ether-alkylammonium cation binding strategy resulted in stable conjugates as revealed by computational studies performed by the DFT B3LYP/3-21G(*) method in addition to the binding constants obtained from fluorescence quenching studies. The free-energy changes for charge-separation and charge-recombination were varied by the choice of different metal ions in the porphyrin cavity. Free-energy calculations suggested that the light-induced electron-transfer processes from the singlet excited state of porphyrins to be exothermic in all of the investigated supramolecular dyads and triads. Photoinduced charge-separation and charge-recombination processes have been confirmed by the combination of the time-resolved fluorescence and nanosecond transient absorption spectral measurements. In case of the triads, the charge-recombination processes of the radical anion of the fullerene moiety take place in two steps, viz., a direct charge recombination from the porphyrin cation radical and a slower step involving distant charge recombination from the ferrocene cation moiety. The rates of charge recombination for the second route were found to be an order of magnitude slower than the former route, thus fulfilling the condition for charge migration to generate long-lived charge-separated states in supramolecular systems.

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American Chemical Society
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The journal of physical chemistry. B
J Phys Chem B
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1520-6106
1520-5207
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