Synthesis and photoinduced intramolecular processes of light-harvesting silicon phthalocyanine-naphthalenediimide-fullerene connected systems

Mohamed E. El-Khouly; Jung Hoon Kim; Kwang Yol Kay; Chan Soo Choi; Osamu Ito; Shunichi Fukuzumi

doi:10.1002/chem.200900165

Synthesis and photoinduced intramolecular processes of light-harvesting silicon phthalocyanine-naphthalenediimide-fullerene connected systems

Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Jung Hoon Kim, Kwang Yol Kay, Chan Soo Choi, Osamu Ito, Shunichi Fukuzumi

Department of Chemistry & Nanoscience

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Photoinduced intramolecular processes of a newly synthesized pentad composed of silicon phthalocya- nine (SiPc) that is connected with two units of naphthalenediimide (NDI) and fullerene C₆₀ to form SiPc-(NDI) ₂- (C₆₀)₂ have been studied and the results are compared with the reference compounds, namely, the SiPc-(NDI)₂ triad and NDI-C₆₀ dyad. Upon photoexcita- tion, the main quenching pathway in polar solvents involved electron transfer via the singlet excited states of SiPc-(NDI)₂-(C₆₀)₂ and SiPc-(NDI)₂, but not NDI-C₆₀ for which the energy transfer is dominant. The occurrence of electron-transfer processes of SiPc- (NDI)₂-(C ₆₀)₂ and SiPc-(NDI)₂ were studied by time-resolved emission and transient absorption techniques and confirmed by redox measurements and molecular orbital calculations with ab initio B3LYP/3-21G(*) methods. Fast and efficient charge-separation processes via the singlet excited states of NDI and SiPc were monitored, followed by charge recombination to populate the C₆₀ and SiPc triplet states. The lifetimes of charge-separated states were estimated as 1000 and 250 ps for SiPc- (NDI)₂-(C₆₀)₂ and SiPc-(NDI)₂, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5301-5310
Number of pages	10
Journal	Chemistry - A European Journal
Volume	15
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.200900165
State	Published - 18 May 2009

Keywords

Electron transfer
Ful-lerenes
Laser chemistry
Naphtha- lenediimides
Photochemistry
Phthalocyanines

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