Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (9): 1698.

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Effect of CF3COOH on Decay Mechanism of the Excited State of a Free-base-Porphyrin-Perylene-Diimide Array

SUN Jing-Zhi1, YANG Xin-Guo1,2, LI Han-Ying1, HUANG Ji1, WANG Mang1   

  1. 1. State Key Lab of Silicon Materials, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
    2. College of Materials Science and Enginsering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • Received:2003-11-11 Online:2004-09-24 Published:2004-09-24

Abstract: The effects of CF3COOH concentration on the decay mechanism of a photo-excited free-base-porphyrin-perylene-diimide molecular array(TrPP-MDPTCDI) were investigated with UV-visible absorption spectroscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy. The data revealed that, the molecular array gave off a characteristic emission from the protonated free-base porphyrin upon the photo-excitation of both porpyrin and perylene-diimide subuntits. Based on the electronic structure, the protonation allowed the [H22+TrPP*-MDPTCDI] to be relatively stable in all the photo-excited species. As a result, the electron transfer from free-base-porpyrin to perylene-diimide, a predominate decay channel in the absence of CF3COOH was effectively inhibited, and the [H22+TrPP*-MDPTCDI] formed upon the excitation of protonated free-base porphyrin(λ=438 nm) relaxed directly to the ground state with fluorescence; while the [H22+TrPP*-MDPTCDI] formed upon the excitation of perylene-diimide subunit (λ=491 nm) relaxed via a charge-separation mediate species to [H22+TrPP-MDPTCDI*], which decayed with radiation of protonated free-base porpyrin; the latter course was accompanied with a low efficiency energy transfer from perylene-diimide to the protonated free-base porphyrin subunit.

Key words: Protonation, Molecular array, Charge transfer, Energy transfer, Excited states

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