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Yang Y, Valandro SR, Li Z, Kim S, Schanze KS. Photoinduced Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Phenylene Ethynylene Naphthalimide Oligomers. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:3863-3873. [PMID: 33945279 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c01691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This paper reports a photophysical investigation of a series of phenylene ethynylene oligomers (OPE) that are end-substituted with a 1,8-naphthalene imide (NI) acceptor. The NI acceptor is attached to the terminus of the OPEs via an ethynylene (-C≡C-) unit that is linked at the 4-position of the NI unit. A series of three oligomers is investigated, OPE1-NI, OPE3-NI, and OPE5-NI, which contain 1, 3, and 5 phenylene ethynylene repeat units, respectively. The properties of the OPEn-NI series are compared to a corresponding set of unsubstituted OPEs, OPE3 and OPE5, which contain 3 and 5 phenylene ethynylene repeats, respectively. The photophysics of all the compounds are interrogated using a variety of techniques including steady-state absorption, steady-state fluorescence, two-photon absorption, time-resolved fluorescence, and transient absorption spectroscopy on femtosecond-to-microsecond time scales. The effect of solvent polarity on the properties of the oligomers is examined. The results show that the NI-substituted oligomers feature a lowest charge transfer (CT) excited state, where the OPE segment acts as the donor and the NI moiety is the acceptor (OPEn•+-NI•-). The absorption spectra in one-photon and two-photon exhibit a clear manifold of absorption features that can be attributed to direct CT absorption. In moderately polar solvents, the emission is dominated by a broad, solvatochromic band that is due to radiative decay from the CT excited state. Ultrafast transient absorption provides evidence for initial population of a locally excited state (LE) which in moderately polar solvents rapidly (∼1 ps) evolves into the CT excited state. The structure, spectroscopy, and dynamics of the CT state are qualitatively similar for OPE3-NI and OPE5-NI, suggesting that delocalization in the OPE segment does not have much effect on the structure or energetics of the CT excited state.
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- Yajing Yang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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Meza D, Arias E, Moggio I, Romero J, Mata JM, Jiménez-Barrera RM, Ziolo RF, Rodríguez O, Ottonelli M. Synthesis and photophysical and supramolecular study of π-conjugated (diethylene glycol methyl ether) benzoateethynylene oligomers and polymers. Polym Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c4py01516a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The strong π–π interaction that governs (diethylene glycol methyl ether) benzoateethynylene macromolecules was evidenced by X-ray scattering and HRTEM.
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- D. Meza
- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA)
- Saltillo
- México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA)
- Saltillo
- México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA)
- Saltillo
- México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA)
- Saltillo
- México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA)
- Saltillo
- México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA)
- Saltillo
- México
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA)
- Saltillo
- México
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Universitá di Genova
- 16146 Genoa
- Italy
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Arias E, Moggio I, Torres R, Ziolo RF, Maldonado JL, Green K, Cooper TM, Wicks G, Rebane A, Drobizhev M, Makarov NS, Ottonelli M, Dellepiane G. Direct Synthesis of 2,5-Bis(dodecanoxy)phenyleneethynylene-Butadiynes by Sonogashira Coupling Reaction. European J Org Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201300230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Castruita G, García V, Arias E, Moggio I, Ziolo R, Ponce A, González V, Haley JE, Flikkema JL, Cooper T. Synthesis, optical and structural properties of sanidic liquid crystal (cholesteryl)benzoate-ethynylene oligomers and polymer. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2jm14918d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ottonelli M, Piccardo M, Duce D, Thea S, Dellepiane G. Tuning the photophysical properties of pyrene-based systems: a theoretical study. J Phys Chem A 2011; 116:611-30. [PMID: 22103241 DOI: 10.1021/jp2084764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Recently new molecular systems based on the pyrene moiety were developed for photovoltaic applications. Here we present the results of a quantum chemical study focused on the effects induced by some different substituents on the electronic properties of pyrene, to obtain general hints for the molecular design of new pyrene-based systems. In particular, a series of electron-donating (hydroxy, amino, acetylamino) and electron-withdrawing (cyano, carbamoyl, formyl, ethynyl, ethenyl) groups were considered. Furthermore, in addition to the single pyrene molecule, two pyrene units linked by ethenylene, ethynylene, 2,5-thienylene, and ethynylene-p-phenylene containing chains of different lengths were taken into account. For all of the model structures presented, the ground state geometries have been optimized using the density functional approach, while the vertical transition energies were calculated using the time-dependent density functional theory. We will show that the tuning of the lowest electronic excitation energy (i.e., the HOMO-LUMO energy gap) as well as the localization of the spatial distributions of the frontier molecular orbitals (i.e., the nature of the electron-hole pair, generated by photon absorption) can be obtained through the analysis of the pyrene frontier molecular orbitals. This approach allows to evaluate the most suitable position of the substituents on the pyrene moiety giving rise to enhanced electronic effects also in function of their electronic nature. In this way, pyrene-structures with tailored electronic properties could be modeled. Our screening shows that promising candidates for photovoltaic applications could be molecular structures formed by two pyrene units joined/linked by a short conjugated bridge containing double or triple bonds (henceforth pyrene-linked dimers). As far as the single pyrene units are considered, the most significant reduction of the transition energy of the lowest optical electronic excitation is obtained with disubstituted pyrenes with push-pull character.
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- Massimo Ottonelli
- INSTM and Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 31, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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García LA, Arias E, Moggio I, Romero J, Ledezma A, Ponce A, Perez O. Fluorescent core-sheath fibers by electrospinning of a phenyleneethynylene/poly(styrene-co-maleimide) blend. POLYMER 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2011.09.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Ervithayasuporn V, Abe J, Wang X, Matsushima T, Murata H, Kawakami Y. Synthesis, characterization, and OLED application of oligo(p-phenylene ethynylene)s with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) as pendant groups. Tetrahedron 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2010.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Zhang Y, Galoppini E. Organic polyaromatic hydrocarbons as sensitizing model dyes for semiconductor nanoparticles. CHEMSUSCHEM 2010; 3:410-428. [PMID: 20135672 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.200900233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The study of interfacial charge-transfer processes (sensitization) of a dye bound to large-bandgap nanostructured metal oxide semiconductors, including TiO(2), ZnO, and SnO(2), is continuing to attract interest in various areas of renewable energy, especially for the development of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The scope of this Review is to describe how selected model sensitizers prepared from organic polyaromatic hydrocarbons have been used over the past 15 years to elucidate, through a variety of techniques, fundamental aspects of heterogeneous charge transfer at the surface of a semiconductor. This Review does not focus on the most recent or efficient dyes, but rather on how model dyes prepared from aromatic hydrocarbons have been used, over time, in key fundamental studies of heterogeneous charge transfer. In particular, we describe model chromophores prepared from anthracene, pyrene, perylene, and azulene. As the level of complexity of the model dye-bridge-anchor group compounds has increased, the understanding of some aspects of very complex charge transfer events has improved. The knowledge acquired from the study of the described model dyes is of importance not only for DSSC development but also to other fields of science for which electronic processes at the molecule/semiconductor interface are relevant.
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- Yongyi Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07102,USA
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Castruita G, Arias E, Moggio I, Pérez F, Medellín D, Torres R, Ziolo R, Olivas A, Giorgetti E, Muniz-Miranda M. Synthesis, optical properties and supramolecular order of π-conjugated 2,5-di(alcoxy)phenyleneethynylene oligomers. J Mol Struct 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2009.07.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Lee UR, Lee JE, Cho MJ, Kim KH, Kwon YW, Jin JI, Choi DH. Photoluminescence behaviors of organic soluble DNA bearing carbazole and pyrene derivatives as side-chain substituents and effect of the copolymer structure on the Förster energy transfer process. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/pola.23591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Thyagarajan S, Galoppini E, Persson P, Giaimuccio JM, Meyer GJ. Large footprint pyrene chromophores anchored to planar and colloidal metal oxide thin films. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2009; 25:9219-9226. [PMID: 19719222 DOI: 10.1021/la9007679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Sensitization and binding of a large footprint pyrene chromophore to planar (sapphire) and colloidal metal oxide films (TiO2 and ZrO2) is investigated. The model compound combines a 1-pyrenyl-ethynylenephenylene unit with a new adamantane-tripodal linker that binds to the surface. The linker design, combining a large footprint (approximately 2 nm2) of the tripodal linker with the meta position of the COOH anchoring groups, was suggested from atomistic models, and it aims to provide improved spacing control. The pyrene chromophore unit provides a probe of sensitizer-sensitizer interactions through its propensity to form excimers, unless neighboring pyrene units are sufficiently spaced (>or=3.5 A). Absorption and fluorescence studies, and a comparison with a pyrene-rigid rod model compound, suggest that the new tripodal anchor group allows spacing control on planar surfaces. On colloidal films, the linker provides spacing control at low surface coverage but sensitizer-sensitizer interactions are still observed on colloidal films at high surface coverage. Implications for the functionalization of metal oxide films in hybrid molecule-metal oxide semiconductor material systems are discussed.
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- Sujatha Thyagarajan
- Chemistry Department, Rutgers University, 73 Warren Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA
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James PV, Yoosaf K, Kumar J, Thomas KG, Listorti A, Accorsi G, Armaroli N. Tunable photophysical properties of phenyleneethynylene based bipyridine ligands. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2009; 8:1432-40. [PMID: 19789813 DOI: 10.1039/b9pp00002j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A bipyridine-based system with phenyleneethynylene at the 4,4' positions (1) and its p-methyl (2) and p-methoxy (3) substituted derivatives were synthesized via Sonogashira coupling reactions. The photophysical properties of 1-3 and their related H+ and Zn2+ adducts (1:H+-3:H+ and 1:Zn2+-3:Zn2+) were investigated, as a function of solvent polarity, by using steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic techniques. Molecular systems 1-3 exhibit trans conformation, whereas adducts with H+ and Zn2+ are conformationally locked cis species. The unsubstituted compound 1 emits at 360 nm with low fluorescence quantum yield (phi(fl) = 0.2%) regardless of the solvent polarity. Fluorescence spectra of 2 and 3 are bathochromically shifted in polar solvents, and the p-methoxy (3) derivative possesses phi(fl) as high as 12%. Complexation of 1-3 with H+ or Zn2+ in acetonitrile causes red-shift of the lowest energy absorption bands, whereas dramatic changes of the emission properties are found as a function of the electron donating ability of the substituents on the phenyleneethynylene moiety (-CH3 or -OCH3), suggesting a charge-transfer character of the lowest electronic transition of 1-3. 1:H+, 1:Zn2+, 2:H+ and 2:Zn2+ exhibit intense fluorescence with phi(fl) up to 33% (1:Zn2+) whilst 3:H+ and 3:Zn2+ are found to be weakly emissive. The singlet radiative and non-radiative rate constants of compounds and complexes were determined, along with triplet parameters, via phosphorescence and transient absorption spectroscopy. More conclusive evidence regarding the protonation of bipyridine nitrogen atoms of compounds 1-3 were obtained through 1H NMR titration studies. These studies indicate that the conjugate molecular systems based on 2,2'-bipyridine and phenyleneethenylenes possess tunable optical properties which can be further utilized for preparing organic and inorganic luminophores with potential application in optoelectronic systems.
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- P V James
- Photosciences and Photonics Group, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR) (formerly Regional Research Laboratory), Trivandrum, 695019, India
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Pal SK, Sundström V, Galoppini E, Persson P. Calculations of interfacial interactions in pyrene-Ipa rod sensitized nanostructured TiO2. Dalton Trans 2009:10021-31. [DOI: 10.1039/b910880g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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