Energy and Electron Transfer in Ethynylene Bridged Perylene Diimide Multichromophores
| Autor: | Mark Van der Auweraer, Eduard Fron, Andreas Herrmann, Gerd Schweitzer, Michel Sliwa, Cristina Flors, Klaus Müllen, Frans C. De Schryver, Tobias Schnitzler, Johan Hofkens, Ingo Oesterling |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Biophysics in Medicine (NANOBIOMED) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Physical Chemistry. C: Nanomaterials and Interfaces, 111(12), 4861-4870. AMER CHEMICAL SOC |
| ISSN: | 1932-7455 1932-7447 |
| Popis: | Shape persistent perylene diimide (PDI) multichromophores incorporating ethynylene bridges have been synthesized in high yield via palladium-catalyzed Hagihara coupling, which provides compounds with no rotational or constitutional isomerism in contrast to polyphenylene dendrimers. Their excited-state pathways have been studied at the ensemble and at the single-molecule level and compared to several model compounds. In an apolar solvent, energy hopping and/or energy transfer between the chromophoric units are the dominating processes. In a polar medium, energy hopping is still operative, but electron transfer from the phenyl ethynylene bridge to the chromophore occurs if the former is connected to the bay area of PDI. This effect should be considered when further developing this type of multichromophore, as this nonradiative deactivation process might be unwanted for applications such as optical and electronic devices. At the single-molecule level, the fluorescence intensity traces are characterized by rich on-off dynamics, which we attribute to oxygen-enhanced intersystem crossing leading to the formation of a long-lived dark charge-separated state. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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