Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2010, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (5): 933.

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Construction, Photophysical and Electrochemical Studies on Ferrocene-phthalocyanine-fullerene Supramolecular Triads

ZHAO Hai-Ying1,2, CHEN Chen1, ZHU Yi-Zhou1, ZHENG Jian-Yu1*   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China;
    2. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot 010021, China
  • Online:2010-05-10 Published:2010-05-10
  • Contact: ZHENG Jian-Yu. E-mail: jyzheng@nankai.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    国家“九七三”计划项目(批准号: 2006CB932900)、国家自然科学基金(批准号: 20802038, 20721062)和天津市科技计划项目(批准号: 07QTPTJC29700)资助.

Abstract:

Much attention has been paid recently to the studies on photoinduced electron transfer in donor acceptor systems mainly to develop artificial photosynthetic systems and molecular optoelectronic devices. Several covalent and supramolecular phthalocyanine-fullerene systems have been prepared for this purpose, but only a few triads have been reported to date. In this article, ferrocene-phthalocyanine-fullerene supramolecular triads were constructed with pyridine- or imidazole-appended fulleropyrrolidine and covalently linked zinc phthalocyanine-ferrocene dyad via axial coordination. The stablilities of the triads(Kassoc=8.58×104 L/mol) were studied by optical absorption methods. Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements suggested that the occurrence of efficient photoinduced electron transfer(kCS =109 s-1) from excited phthalocyanine to fullerene entity in the triads with high charge-separation quantum yields(ФCS =0.88). The redox potentials were determined by cyclic voltammetric, and the driving forces(ΔGCS =-0.60 eV) were estimated to be exothermic, which favored the forming of charge-separation state.

Key words: Ferrocene; Phthalocyanine; Fullerene; Supramolecular triad; Photoinduced electron transfer

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