Photoinduced electron transfer of zinc porphyrin-oligo(thienylenevinylene)- fullerene[60] triads; Thienylenevinylenes as efficient molecular wires

Frédéric Oswald, D. M. Shafiqul Islam, Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Yasuyuki Araki, Rubén Caballero, Pilar De La Cruz, Osamu Ito, Fernando Langa

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Abstract

Two novel donor-bridge-acceptor arrays (ZnP-nTV-C60) with zinc porphyrin (ZnP) and fullerene (C60), covalently connected by oligo(thienylenevinylene) (nTV) molecular wires (n = 3 and 8; 1a,b), have been prepared in a multistep convergent manner. The influence of the nTV-length on the electrochemical and electronic properties of the ZnP-nTV-C60 triads has been revealed. Interestingly, an efficient photoinduced electron transfer process occurs in both triads with formation of intermediate radical-ion pairs (namely, ZnP+-nTV-C60- and ZnP-nTV+-C60-) as confirmed by the nanosecond transient absorption measurements in the visible and NIR regions. In polar and nonpolar solvents, the rate constants of charge-separation processes (k CS) via1ZnP*-nTV-C60 were found to decrease from ca. 1.2 × 1010 s-1 for n = 3 (R DA = 20 Å) to (5-7) × 109 s-1 for n = 8 (RDA = 60 Å) on the basis of fluorescence lifetime measurements of the ZnP moiety. From these data, together with those previously obtained ones for n = 4 in the related ZnP-nTV-C60 systems, a low attenuation coefficient was evaluated for the nTV molecular wires.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2443-2451
Number of pages9
JournalPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume16
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014 Feb 14

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