Exclusive triplet electron transfer leading to long-lived radical ion-pair formation in an electron rich platinum porphyrin covalently linked to fullerene dyad

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (45) ◽  
pp. 6058-6061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dili R. Subedi ◽  
Habtom B. Gobeze ◽  
Yuri E. Kandrashkin ◽  
Prashanth K. Poddutoori ◽  
Art van der Est ◽  
...  

Radical ion-pair energy as high as 1.48 eV with lifetime as much as ∼1 μs, exclusively from the triplet excited state of a photosensitizer, is established in a novel donor–acceptor conjugate.


1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (9) ◽  
pp. 1215-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Bock ◽  
Markus Kleine

In an especially designed and sealed glass apparatus, a combination of UV/VIS and ESR spectroscopy measurements are performed to follow electron transfer reactions in aprotic (cH⊕ < 0,1 ppm) solution. For the sodium metal reductions of the tetracyano-substituted title compounds, the novel technique provides the following detailed information: 1,2,4,5- tetracyanobenzene is uniformly reduced to its radical anion, for which additional geometryoptimized MNDO calculations predict an already significant cyanine disortion. For 7,7,8,8- tetracyano-p-quinodimethane, UV/VIS band shape analysis allows to detect in the saturated THF reduction solution the 16300 cm-1 absorption of the donor/acceptor complex formed in the equilibrium TCNQ·⊖ + TCNQ ⇆ {TCNQ·⊖···TCNQ}, which according to a literature search has been crystallized and structurally characterized in paramagnetic salts such as [Me2⊕ (TCNQ·⊖)2(TCNQ)].





1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (9) ◽  
pp. 1222-1228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Bock ◽  
Markus Kleine

UV/VIS and ESR spectra of electron transfer reaction products in aprotic (cH⊕ < 0,1 ppm) solution can be measured in an especially designed and sealed glass apparatus and provide information on unknown facets of the microscopic pathway through the network of interdependent equilibria. For tetraphenyl-p-benzoquinone in tetrahydrofuran, single-electron reduction by a sodium metal mirror produces a red solution and, unexpectedly, after addition of 2.2.2. cryptand, contact with a potassium metal mirror generates a green (!) one. For both, ESR/ENDOR spectra prove the presence of tetraphenyl-p-benzoquinone radical anion. UV/VIS measurements provide the clue: In the equilibrium revealed by repetetive spectra recording, M·⊖solv + Me⊕solv ⇄ [M·⊖···Me⊖]solv, the radical anion is green (vm = 16900 cm-1) and the contact ion pair red (vm=18900 cm-1 ). On ion pair formation, therefore, the excitation energy of the radical anion increases by 0.25 eV.



2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (09) ◽  
pp. 993-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kei Ohkubo ◽  
Shunichi Fukuzumi

Control of electron-transfer processes is described for a number of electron donor-acceptor dyads containing porphyrins or phthalocyanines as models for the photosynthetic reaction center. The rates for intramolecular electron transfer in the dyads are controlled by the driving force and reorganization energy of electron transfer. The small reorganization energy of electron transfer reactions and large driving force of charge recombination are required to form long-lived charge-separated states. A directly linked zinc chlorin-fullerene dyad, especially, has the longest lifetime of charge-separated state at 120 s at -150 °C, which is a much longer lifetime and higher energy than those of natural photosynthetic reaction centers. On the other hand, the charge-separated states of the phthalocyanine-based donor-acceptor dyads (silicon phthalocyanine-fullerene, and zinc phthalocyanine-perylenebisimide) are short-lived since charge recombination forms the low-lying triplet excited state of the chromophore. The energy of the charge-separated state of a zinc phthalocyanine-perylenebisimide dyad is decreased by binding of metal ions to the radical anion moiety in order to be lower than the triplet excited state. This results in formation of a long-lived charge-separated state. The mechanistic viability of formation of long-lived charge-separated states is demonstrated by a variety of examples based on the Marcus theory of electron transfer.



2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (20) ◽  
pp. 6595-6604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emad M. Hamed ◽  
Hanh Doai ◽  
Christopher K. McLaughlin ◽  
Abdelaziz Houmam


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Mendes ◽  
Beatriz Pamplona ◽  
Sarvesh Kumar ◽  
Filipe Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Antonio Aguilar ◽  
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