Generation-Dependent Energy Dissipation in Rigid Dendrimers Studied by Femtosecond to Nanosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Autor: Andreas Herrmann, Tanja Weil, M. Van der Auweraer, G. De Belder, Marc Lor, Johan Hofkens, S. Jordens, R. De, Mircea Cotlet, Gerd Schweitzer, F. C. De Schryver, Klaus Müllen
Přispěvatelé: Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Biophysics in Medicine (NANOBIOMED)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry. A: Molecules, Spectroscopy, Kinetics, Environment, & General Theory, 106(10), 2083-2090. AMER CHEMICAL SOC
ISSN: 1520-5215
Popis: Intramolecular kinetic processes in a series of second-generation polyphenyl dendrimers with multiple peryleneimide chromophores attached to the para position of the outer phenyl ring were investigated by steady-state and femtosecond to nanosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The results obtained were compared to the ones of the corresponding first-generation dendrimer series. The energy-hopping rate constant, khopp, observed from anisotropy decay times was found to be 5 times smaller than that of the first-generation series and scales well with the difference in average distance between the chromophores. In addition to the processes observed in first-generation dendrimers in the ultrafast time domain by fluorescence up-conversion, a second annihilation process is found in the second-generation multichromophoric dendrimer. The observation of two singlet-singlet annihilation processes in this compound can be explained by the presence of a mixture of constitutional isomers leading to a broader distribution of distances between neighboring chromophores compared to first-generation multichromophoric dendrimers.
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