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Shao S, Gobeze HB, De Silva IW, Schaffner J, Verbeck G, Karr PA, D'Souza F. Photoinduced Energy and Electron Transfer in a 'Two-Point' Bound Panchromatic, Near-Infrared-Absorbing Bis-styrylBODIPY(Zinc Porphyrin) 2 - Fullerene Self-Assembled Supramolecular Conjugate. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202401892. [PMID: 38857115 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2024] [Revised: 06/08/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024]
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Structurally well-defined self-assembled supramolecular multi-modular donor-acceptor conjugates play a significant role in furthering our understanding of photoinduced energy and electron transfer events occurring in nature, e. g., in the antenna-reaction centers of photosynthesis and their applications in light energy harvesting. However, building such multi-modular systems capable of mimicking the early events of photosynthesis has been synthetically challenging, causing a major hurdle for its growth. Often, multi-modularity is brought in by combining both covalent and noncovalent approaches. In the present study, we have developed such an approach wherein a π-extended conjugated molecular cleft, two zinc(II)porphyrin bearing bisstyrylBODIPY (dyad, 1), has been synthesized. The binding of 1 via a 'two-point' metal-ligand coordination of a bis-pyridyl fulleropyrrolidine (2), forming a stable self-assembled supramolecular complex (1 : 2), has been established. The self-assembled supramolecular complex has been fully characterized by a suite of physico-chemical methods, including TD-DFT studies. From the established energy diagram, both energy and electron transfer events were envisioned. In dyad 1, selective excitation of zinc(II)porphyrin leads to efficient singlet-singlet excitation transfer to (bisstyrly)BODIPY with an energy transfer rate constant, kEnT of 2.56×1012 s-1. In complex 1 : 2, photoexcitation of zinc(II)porphyrin results in ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer with a charge separation rate constant, kCS of 2.83×1011 s-1, and a charge recombination rate constant, kCR of 2.51×109 s-1. For excitation at 730 nm corresponding to bisstyrylBODIPY, similar results are obtained, where a biexponential decay yielded estimated values of kCS 3.44×1011 s-1 and 2.97×1010 s-1, and a kCR value of 2.10×1010 s-1. The newly built self-assembled supramolecular complex has been shown to successfully mimic the early events of the photosynthetic antenna-reaction center events.
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- Shuai Shao
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, U.S.A
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Augusta University, 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA, 0912, U.S.A
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- Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Wayne State College, 1111 Main Street, Wayne, Nebraska, 68787, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, U.S.A
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Gutiérrez-Vílchez AM, Ileperuma CV, Navarro-Pérez V, Karr PA, Fernández-Lázaro F, D'Souza F. Excited Charge Transfer Promoted Electron Transfer in all Perylenediimide Derived, Wide-Band Capturing Conjugates: A Mimicry of the Early Events of Natural Photosynthesis. Chempluschem 2024:e202400348. [PMID: 38856517 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202400348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2024] [Revised: 06/06/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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Fundamental discoveries in electron transfer advance scientific and technological advancements. It is suggested that in plant and bacterial photosynthesis, the primary donor, a chlorophyll or bacteriochlorophyll dimer, forms an initial excited symmetry-breaking charge transfer state (1CT*) upon photoexcitation that subsequently promotes sequential electron transfer (ET) events. This is unlike monomeric photosensitizer-bearing donor-acceptor dyads where ET occurs from the excited donor or acceptor (1D* or 1A*). In the present study, we successfully demonstrated the former photochemical event using an excited charge transfer molecule as a donor. Electron-deficient perylenediimide (PDI) is functionalized with three electron-rich piperidine entities at the bay positions, resulting in a far-red emitting CT molecule (DCT). Further, this molecule is covalently linked to another PDI (APDI) carrying no substituents at the bay positions, resulting in wide-band capturing DCT-APDI conjugates. Selective excitation of the CT band of DCT in these conjugates leads to an initial 1DCT* that undergoes subsequent ET involving APDI, resulting in DCT +-APDI - charge separation product (kCS~109 s-1). Conversely, when APDI was directly excited, ultrafast energy transfer (ENT) from 1APDI* to DCT (kENT~1011 s-1) followed by ET from 1DCT* to PDI is witnessed. While increasing solvent polarity improved kCS rates, for a given solvent, the magnitude of the kCS values was almost the same, irrespective of the excitation wavelengths. The present findings demonstrate ET from an initial CT state to an acceptor is key to understanding the intricate ET events in complex natural and bacterial photosynthetic systems possessing multiple redox- and photoactive entities.
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- Ana M Gutiérrez-Vílchez
- División de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, 03203, Elche, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas at Denton, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
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- División de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, 03203, Elche, Spain
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- Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Wayne State College, 111 Main Street, Wayne, Nebraska, 68787, USA
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- División de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, 03203, Elche, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas at Denton, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
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Guo R, Xu YL, Zhu JX, Scheer H, Zhao KH. Assembly of CpcL-phycobilisomes. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2024; 118:1207-1217. [PMID: 38319793 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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CpcL-phycobilisomes (CpcL-PBSs) are a reduced type of phycobilisome (PBS) found in several cyanobacteria. They lack the traditional PBS terminal energy emitters, but still show the characteristic red-shifted fluorescence at ~670 nm. We established a method of assembling in vitro a rod-membrane linker protein, CpcL, with phycocyanin, generating complexes with the red-shifted spectral features of CpcL-PBSs. The red-shift arises from the interaction of a conserved key glutamine, Q57 of CpcL in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, with a single phycocyanobilin chromophore of trimeric phycocyanin at one of the three β82-sites. This chromophore is the terminal energy acceptor of CpcL-PBSs and donor to the photosystem(s). This mechanism also operates in PBSs from Acaryochloris marina MBIC11017. We then generated multichromic complexes harvesting light over nearly the complete visible range via the replacement of phycocyanobilin chromophores at sites α84 and β153 of phycocyanins by phycoerythrobilin and/or phycourobilin. The results demonstrate the rational design of biliprotein-based light-harvesting elements by engineering CpcL and phycocyanins, which broadens the light-harvesting range and accordingly improves the light-harvesting capacity and may be potentially applied in solar energy harvesting.
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- Rui Guo
- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China
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- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China
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- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China
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- Department Biologie I, Universität München, Menzinger Str. 67, D-80638, München, Germany
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- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China
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Mandal T, Mishra SR, Singh V. Comprehensive advances in the synthesis, fluorescence mechanism and multifunctional applications of red-emitting carbon nanomaterials. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2023; 5:5717-5765. [PMID: 37881704 PMCID: PMC10597556 DOI: 10.1039/d3na00447c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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Red emitting fluorescent carbon nanomaterials have drawn significant scientific interest in recent years due to their high quantum yield, water-dispersibility, photostability, biocompatibility, ease of surface functionalization, low cost and eco-friendliness. The red emissive characteristics of fluorescent carbon nanomaterials generally depend on the carbon source, reaction time, synthetic approach/methodology, surface functional groups, average size, and other reaction environments, which directly or indirectly help to achieve red emission. The importance of several factors to achieve red fluorescent carbon nanomaterials is highlighted in this review. Numerous plausible theories have been explained in detail to understand the origin of red fluorescence and tunable emission in these carbon-based nanostructures. The above advantages and fluorescence in the red region make them a potential candidate for multifunctional applications in various current fields. Therefore, this review focused on the recent advances in the synthesis approach, mechanism of fluorescence, and electronic and optical properties of red-emitting fluorescent carbon nanomaterials. This review also explains the several innovative applications of red-emitting fluorescent carbon nanomaterials such as biomedicine, light-emitting devices, sensing, photocatalysis, energy, anticounterfeiting, fluorescent silk, artificial photosynthesis, etc. It is hoped that by choosing appropriate methods, the present review can inspire and guide future research on the design of red emissive fluorescent carbon nanomaterials for potential advancements in multifunctional applications.
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- Tuhin Mandal
- Environment Emission and CRM Section, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research Dhanbad Jharkhand 828108 India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad 201 002 India
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- Environment Emission and CRM Section, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research Dhanbad Jharkhand 828108 India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad 201 002 India
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- Environment Emission and CRM Section, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research Dhanbad Jharkhand 828108 India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad 201 002 India
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Ileperuma CV, Garcés-Garcés J, Shao S, Fernández-Lázaro F, Sastre-Santos Á, Karr PA, D'Souza F. Panchromatic Light-Capturing Bis-styryl BODIPY-Perylenediimide Donor-Acceptor Constructs: Occurrence of Sequential Energy Transfer Followed by Electron Transfer. Chemistry 2023; 29:e202301686. [PMID: 37428999 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/12/2023]
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Two wide-band-capturing donor-acceptor conjugates featuring bis-styrylBODIPY and perylenediimide (PDI) have been newly synthesized, and the occurrence of ultrafast excitation transfer from the 1 PDI* to BODIPY, and a subsequent electron transfer from the 1 BODIPY* to PDI have been demonstrated. Optical absorption studies revealed panchromatic light capture but offered no evidence of ground-state interactions between the donor and acceptor entities. Steady-state fluorescence and excitation spectral recordings provided evidence of singlet-singlet energy transfer in these dyads, and quenched fluorescence of bis-styrylBODIPY emission in the dyads suggested additional photo-events. The facile oxidation of bis-styrylBODIPY and facile reduction of PDI, establishing their relative roles of electron donor and acceptor, were borne out by electrochemical studies. The electrostatic potential surfaces of the S1 and S2 states, derived from time-dependent DFT calculations, supported excited charge transfer in these dyads. Spectro-electrochemical studies on one-electron-oxidized and one-electron-reduced dyads and the monomeric precursor compounds were also performed in a thin-layer optical cell under corresponding applied potentials. From this study, both bis-styrylBODIPY⋅+ and PDI⋅- could be spectrally characterizes and were subsequently used in characterizing the electron-transfer products. Finally, pump-probe spectral studies were performed in dichlorobenzene under selective PDI and bis-styrylBODIPY excitation to secure energy and electron-transfer evidence. The measured rate constants for energy transfer, kENT , were in the range of 1011 s-1 , while the electron transfer rate constants, kET , were in the range of 1010 s-1 , thus highlighting their potential use in solar energy harvesting and optoelectronic applications.
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- Chamari V Ileperuma
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas at Denton, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
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- Área de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, 03203, Elche, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas at Denton, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
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- Área de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, 03203, Elche, Spain
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- Área de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, 03203, Elche, Spain
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- Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Wayne State College, 111 Main Street, Wayne, Nebraska, 68787, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas at Denton, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
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Jang Y, Sekaran B, Singh PP, Misra R, D'Souza F. Accelerated Intramolecular Charge Transfer in Tetracyanobutadiene- and Expanded Tetracyanobutadiene-Incorporated Asymmetric Triphenylamine-Quinoxaline Push-Pull Conjugates. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:4455-4462. [PMID: 37192382 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The excited-state properties of an asymmetric triphenylamine-quinoxaline push-pull system wherein triphenylamine and quinoxaline take up the roles of an electron donor and acceptor, respectively, are initially investigated. Further, in order to improve the push-pull effect, powerful electron acceptors, viz., 1,1,4,4-tetracyanobutadiene (TCBD) and cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-diylidene-expanded tetracyanobutadiene (also known as expanded-TCBD or exTCBD), have been introduced into the triphenylamine-quinoxaline molecular framework using a catalyst-free [2 + 2] cycloaddition-retroelectrocyclization reaction. The presence of these electron acceptors caused strong ground-state polarization extending the absorption well into the near-IR region accompanied by strong fluorescence quenching due to intramolecular charge transfer (CT). Systematic studies were performed using a suite of spectral, electrochemical, computational, and pump-probe spectroscopic techniques to unravel the intramolecular CT mechanism and to probe the role of TCBD and exTCBD in promoting excited-state CT and separation events. Faster CT in exTCBD-derived compared to that in TCBD-derived push-pull systems has been witnessed in polar benzonitrile.
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- Youngwoo Jang
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, GLA University, NH-2, Delhi-Mathura highways, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh 282004, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017, United States
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Ullah N, Chen S, Zhang R. Excited‐state nonadiabatic dynamics simulations on the heptazine and adenine in a water environment: A mini review. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202200445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Naeem Ullah
- Department of Physics City University of Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong SAR China
- Department of Physics Government Degree College Dara Adam Khel, Higher Education Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwah Pakistan
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- Department of Physics City University of Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong SAR China
- School of Materials Science and Engineering Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) Jinan China
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- Department of Physics City University of Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong SAR China
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Bikas R, Shaghaghi Z, Heshmati-Sharabiani Y, Heydari N, Lis T. Water oxidation reaction in the presence of a dinuclear Mn(II)-semicarbohydrazone coordination compound. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2022; 154:383-395. [PMID: 35870060 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-022-00939-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 06/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Water splitting, producing of oxygen, and hydrogen molecules, is an essential reaction for clean energy resources and is one of the challenging reactions for artificial photosynthesis. The Mn4Ca cluster in photosystem II (PS-II) is responsible for water oxidation in natural photosynthesis. Due to this, water oxidation reaction by Mn coordination compounds is vital for mimicking the active core of the oxygen-evolving complex in PS-II. Here, a new dinuclear Mn(II)-semicarbohydrazone coordination compound, [Mn(HL)(µ-N3)Cl]2 (1), was synthesized and characterized by various methods. The structure of compound 1 was determined by single crystal X-ray analysis, which revealed the Mn(II) ions have distorted octahedral geometry as (MnN4OCl). This geometry is created by coordinating of oxygen and two nitrogen donor atoms from semicarbohydrazone ligand, two nitrogen atoms from azide bridges, and chloride anion. Compound 1 was used as a catalyst for electrochemical water oxidation, and the surface of the electrode after the reaction was investigated by scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectrometry, and powder X-ray diffraction analyses. Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) experiments revealed that the electrode containing 1 shows high activity for chemical water oxidation with an electrochemical overpotential as low as 377 mV. Although our findings showed that the carbon paste electrode in the presence of 1 is an efficient electrode for water oxidation, it could not withstand water oxidation catalysis under bulk electrolysis and finally converted to Mn oxide nanoparticles which were active for water oxidation along with compound 1.
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- Rahman Bikas
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, 34148-96818, Iran.
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- Coordination Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, 5375171379, Iran
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- Coordination Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, 5375171379, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, 45371-38791, Iran
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Joliot-Curie 14, 50-383, Wrocław, Poland
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Shi T, Li L, Li Z, Chen G, Wang H, Zhang X, Xie Y. Overall Surfacial Antenna Immobilization Boosts Carrier Migration for Visible Light Superoxide Generation. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:10364-10369. [PMID: 36314879 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The artificial photosynthesis efficiency is restricted for the covering of introduced light-absorbing antennas, where they could generally be immobilized at specific surface sites of semiconductors. Here, we highlight the emerging π-π interaction strategies in realizing overall surfacial antenna immobilization onto semiconductor supports, during which large-scale built-in electric fields are established, strongly driving photocarrier migration to catalytic centers accompanied with enhanced light absorption. By taking porphyrin and ZIF-8 as a prototype, both theoretical calculation and experimental results show that the photocatalytic systems with overall surfacial antennas could absorb broader visible light and form abundant photocarrier transport pathways from porphyrin to ZIF-8, boosting the generation of superoxide and organic synthesis efficiency. This work develops a universal strategy for design of efficient artificial photosynthetic systems.
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- Tian Shi
- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
- Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
- Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P. R. China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
- Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P. R. China
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Sláma V, Rajabi S, Mančal T. Fluorographene with impurities as a biomimetic light-harvesting medium. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:185102. [PMID: 35568553 DOI: 10.1063/5.0089794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We investigate the prospect of using a two-dimensional material, fluorographene, to mimic the light-harvesting function of natural photosynthetic antennas. We show by quantum chemical calculations that isles of graphene in a fluorographene sheet can act as quasi-molecules similar to natural pigments from which the structures similar in function to photosynthetic antennas can be built. The graphene isles retain enough identity so that they can be used as building blocks to which intuitive design principles of natural photosynthetic antennas can be applied. We examine the excited state properties, stability, and interactions of these building blocks. Constraints put on the antenna structure by the two-dimensionality of the material as well as the discrete nature of fluorographene sheet are studied. We construct a hypothetical energetic funnel out of two types of quasi-molecules to show how a limited number of building blocks can be arranged to bridge the energy gap and spatial separation in excitation energy transfer. Energy transfer rates for a wide range of the system-environment interaction strengths are predicted. We conclude that conditions for the near unity quantum efficiency of energy transfer are likely to be fulfilled in fluorographene with the controlled arrangement of quasi-molecules.
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- Vladislav Sláma
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Santoro A, Bella G, Cancelliere AM, Serroni S, Lazzaro G, Campagna S. Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Organized Assemblies—Case Studies. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27092713. [PMID: 35566062 PMCID: PMC9102318 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27092713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Revised: 04/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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In this review, photoinduced electron transfer processes in specifically designed assembled architectures have been discussed in the light of recent results reported from our laboratories. A convenient and useful way to study these systems is described to understand the rules that drive a light-induced charge-separated states and its subsequent decay to the ground state, also with the aim of offering a tutorial for young researchers. Assembled systems of covalent or supramolecular nature have been presented, and some functional multicomponent systems for the conversion of light energy into chemical energy have been discussed.
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Frolova L, Furmansky Y, Shestakov AF, Emelianov NA, Liddell PA, Gust D, Visoly-Fisher I, Troshin PA. Advanced Nonvolatile Organic Optical Memory Using Self-Assembled Monolayers of Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyads. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:15461-15467. [PMID: 35343673 PMCID: PMC8990517 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c24979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Photo-switchable organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) represent an important platform for designing memory devices for a diverse array of products including security (brand-protection, copy-protection, keyless entry, etc.), credit cards, tickets, and multiple wearable organic electronics applications. Herein, we present a new concept by introducing self-assembled monolayers of donor-acceptor porphyrin-fullerene dyads as light-responsive triggers modulating the electrical characteristics of OFETs and thus pave the way to the development of advanced nonvolatile optical memory. The devices demonstrated wide memory windows, high programming speeds, and long retention times. Furthermore, we show a remarkable effect of the orientation of the fullerene-polymer dyads at the dielectric/semiconductor interface on the device behavior. In particular, the dyads anchored to the dielectric by the porphyrin part induced a reversible photoelectrical switching of OFETs, which is characteristic of flash memory elements. On the contrary, the devices utilizing the dyad anchored by the fullerene moiety demonstrated irreversible switching, thus operating as read-only memory (ROM). A mechanism explaining this behavior is proposed using theoretical DFT calculations. The results suggest the possibility of revisiting hundreds of known donor-acceptor dyads designed previously for artificial photosynthesis or other purposes as versatile optical triggers in advanced OFET-based multibit memory devices for emerging electronic applications.
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- Lyubov
A. Frolova
- Institute
for Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences,Semenov av. 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russia
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- Yersin
Department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics, Blaustein
Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben Gurion 8499000, Israel
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- Institute
for Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences,Semenov av. 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russia
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- Institute
for Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences,Semenov av. 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russia
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- School
of Molecular Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School
of Molecular Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Yersin
Department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics, Blaustein
Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben Gurion 8499000, Israel
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- Institute
for Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences,Semenov av. 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russia
- Silesian
University of Technology, Akademicka 2A, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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Domcke W, Sobolewski AL. Water Oxidation and Hydrogen Evolution with Organic Photooxidants: A Theoretical Perspective. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:2777-2788. [PMID: 35385277 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In this Perspective, we discuss a novel water-splitting scenario, namely the direct oxidation of water molecules by organic photooxidants in hydrogen-bonded chromophore-water complexes. In comparison with the established scenario of semiconductor-based water splitting, the distance of electron transfer processes is thereby reduced from mesoscopic scales to the Ångström scale, and the time scale is reduced from milliseconds to femtoseconds, which suppresses competing loss processes. The concept is illustrated by computational studies for the heptazine-H2O complex. The excited-state landscape of this complex has been characterized with ab initio electronic-structure methods and the proton-coupled electron-transfer dynamics has been explored with nonadiabatic dynamics simulations. A unique feature of the heptazine chromophore is the existence of a low-lying and exceptionally long-lived 1ππ* state in which a substantial part of the photon energy can be stored for hundreds of nanoseconds and is available for the oxidation of water molecules. The calculations reveal that the absorption spectra and the photochemical functionalities of heptazine chromophores can be systematically tailored by chemical substitution. The options of harvesting hydrogen and the problems posed by the high reactivity of OH radicals are discussed.
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- Wolfgang Domcke
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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Lavarda G, Labella J, Martínez-Díaz MV, Rodríguez-Morgade MS, Osuka A, Torres T. Recent advances in subphthalocyanines and related subporphyrinoids. Chem Soc Rev 2022; 51:9482-9619. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cs00280a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Subporphyrinoids constitute a class of extremely versatile and attractive compounds. Herein, a comprehensive review of the most recent advances in the fundamentals and applications of these cone-shaped aromatic macrocycles is presented.
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- Giulia Lavarda
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Key Laboratory of the Assembly and Application of Organic Functional Molecules of Hunan Province, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, 606-8502 Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- IMDEA-Nanociencia, c/Faraday 9, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Argüello Cordero MA, Boden PJ, Rentschler M, Di Martino-Fumo P, Frey W, Yang Y, Gerhards M, Karnahl M, Lochbrunner S, Tschierlei S. Comprehensive Picture of the Excited State Dynamics of Cu(I)- and Ru(II)-Based Photosensitizers with Long-Lived Triplet States. Inorg Chem 2021; 61:214-226. [PMID: 34908410 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ru(II)- and Cu(I)-based photosensitizers featuring the recently developed biipo ligand (16H-benzo-[4',5']-isoquinolino-[2',1',:1,2]-imidazo-[4,5-f]-[1,10]-phenanthrolin-16-one) were comprehensively investigated by X-ray crystallography, electrochemistry, and especially several time-resolved spectroscopic methods covering all time scales from femto- to milliseconds. The analysis of the experimental results is supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The biipo ligand consists of a coordinating 1,10-phenanthroline moiety fused with a 1,8-naphthalimide unit, which results in an extended π-system with an incorporated electron acceptor moiety. In a previous study, it was shown that this ligand enabled a Ru(II) complex that is an efficient singlet oxygen producer and of potential use for other light-driven applications due to its long emission lifetime. The goal of our here presented research is to provide a full spectroscopic picture of the processes that follow optical excitation. Interestingly, the Ru(II) and Cu(I) complexes differ in their characteristics even though the lowest electronically excited states involve in both cases the biipo ligand. The combined spectroscopic results indicate that an emissive 3MLCT state and a rather dark 3LC state are populated, each to some extent. For the Cu(I) complex, most of the excited population ends up in the 3LC state with an extraordinary lifetime of 439 μs in the solid state at 20 K, while a significant population of the 3MLCT state causes luminescence for the Ru(II) complex. Hence, there is a balance between these two states, which can be tuned by altering the metal center or even by thermal energy, as suggested by the temperature-dependent experiments.
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- Miguel A Argüello Cordero
- Institute for Physics and Department of Life, Light and Matter, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Chemistry Department and Research Center Optimas, TU Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 52, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.,Department of Energy Conversion, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Gaußstraße 17, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Chemistry Department and Research Center Optimas, TU Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 52, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Energy Conversion, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Gaußstraße 17, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Chemistry Department and Research Center Optimas, TU Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 52, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.,Department of Energy Conversion, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Gaußstraße 17, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Physics and Department of Life, Light and Matter, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Energy Conversion, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Gaußstraße 17, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Sekaran B, Dawson A, Jang Y, MohanSingh KV, Misra R, D'Souza F. Charge-Transfer in Panchromatic Porphyrin-Tetracyanobuta-1,3-Diene-Donor Conjugates: Switching the Role of Porphyrin in the Charge Separation Process. Chemistry 2021; 27:14335-14344. [PMID: 34375474 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202102865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Using a combination of cycloaddition-retroelectrocyclization reaction, free-base and zinc porphyrins (H2 P and ZnP) are decorated at their β-pyrrole positions with strong charge transfer complexes, viz., tetracyanobuta-1,3-diene (TCBD)-phenothiazine (3 and 4) or TCBD-aniline (7 and 8), novel class of push-pull systems. The physico-chemical properties of these compounds (MP-Donor and MP-TCBD-Donor) have been investigated using a range of electrochemical, spectroelectrochemical, DFT as well as steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopic techniques. Ground-state charge transfer interactions between the porphyrin and the electron-withdrawing TCBD directly attached to the porphyrin π-system extended the absorption features well into the near-infrared region. To visualize the photo-events, energy level diagrams with the help of free-energy calculations have been established. Switching the role of porphyrin from the initial electron acceptor to electron donor was possible to envision. Occurrence of photoinduced charge separation has been established by complementary transient absorption spectral studies followed by global and target data analyses. Better charge stabilization in H2 P derived over ZnP derived conjugates, and in phenothiazine derived over aniline derived conjugates has been possible to establish. These findings highlight the importance of the nature of porphyrins and second electron donor in governing the ground and excited state charge transfer events in closely positioned donor-acceptor conjugates.
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- Bijesh Sekaran
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA
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Hancock AM, Son M, Nairat M, Wei T, Jeuken LJC, Duffy CDP, Schlau-Cohen GS, Adams PG. Ultrafast energy transfer between lipid-linked chromophores and plant light-harvesting complex II. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:19511-19524. [PMID: 34524278 PMCID: PMC8442836 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp01628h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Light-Harvesting Complex II (LHCII) is a membrane protein found in plant chloroplasts that has the crucial role of absorbing solar energy and subsequently performing excitation energy transfer to the reaction centre subunits of Photosystem II. LHCII provides strong absorption of blue and red light, however, it has minimal absorption in the green spectral region where solar irradiance is maximal. In a recent proof-of-principle study, we enhanced the absorption in this spectral range by developing a biohybrid system where LHCII proteins together with lipid-linked Texas Red (TR) chromophores were assembled into lipid membrane vesicles. The utility of these systems was limited by significant LHCII quenching due to protein-protein interactions and heterogeneous lipid structures. Here, we organise TR and LHCII into a lipid nanodisc, which provides a homogeneous, well-controlled platform to study the interactions between TR molecules and single LHCII complexes. Fluorescence spectroscopy determined that TR-to-LHCII energy transfer has an efficiency of at least 60%, resulting in a 262% enhancement of LHCII fluorescence in the 525-625 nm range, two-fold greater than in the previous system. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy revealed two time constants of 3.7 and 128 ps for TR-to-LHCII energy transfer. Structural modelling and theoretical calculations indicate that these timescales correspond to TR-lipids that are loosely- or tightly-associated with the protein, respectively, with estimated TR-to-LHCII separations of ∼3.5 nm and ∼1 nm. Overall, we demonstrate that a nanodisc-based biohybrid system provides an idealised platform to explore the photophysical interactions between extrinsic chromophores and membrane proteins with potential applications in understanding more complex natural or artificial photosynthetic systems.
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- Ashley M Hancock
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. .,Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.,Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.,Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. .,Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Synthesis and photoinduced charge stabilization in molecular tetrads featuring covalently linked triphenylamine-oligothiophene-BODIPY-C60. J CHEM SCI 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-021-01931-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Pios S, Huang X, Sobolewski AL, Domcke W. Triangular boron carbon nitrides: an unexplored family of chromophores with unique properties for photocatalysis and optoelectronics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:12968-12975. [PMID: 34059871 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02026a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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It has recently been shown that cycl[3.3.3]azine and heptazine (1,3,4,6,7,9,9b-heptaazaphenalene) as well as related azaphenalenes exhibit inverted singlet and triplet states, that is, the energy of the lowest singlet excited state (S1) is below the energy of the lowest triplet excited state (T1). This feature is unique among all known aromatic chromophores and is of outstanding relevance for applications in photocatalysis and organic optoelectronics. Heptazine is the building block of the polymeric material graphitic carbon nitride which is an extensively explored photocatalyst in hydrogen evolution photocatalysis. Derivatives of heptazine have also been identified as efficient emitters in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). In both areas, the inverted singlet-triplet gap of heptazine is a highly beneficial feature. In photocatalysis, the absence of a long-lived triplet state eliminates the activation of atmospheric oxygen, which is favourable for long-term operational stability. In optoelectronics, singlet-triplet inversion implies the possibility of 100% fluorescence efficiency of electron-hole recombination. However, the absorption and luminescence wavelengths of heptazine and the S1-S0 transition dipole moment are difficult to tune for optimal functionality. In this work, we employed high-level ab initio electronic structure theory to devise and characterize a large family of novel heteroaromatic chromophores, the triangular boron carbon nitrides. These novel heterocycles inherit essential spectroscopic features from heptazine, in particular the inverted singlet-triplet gap, while their absorption and luminescence spectra and transition dipole moments are widely tuneable. For applications in photocatalysis, the wavelength of the absorption maximum can be tuned to improve the overlap with the solar spectrum at the surface of earth. For applications in OLEDs, the colour of emission can be adjusted and the fluorescence yield can be enhanced.
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- Sebastian Pios
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 85747 Garching, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 85747 Garching, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 85747 Garching, Germany.
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Akari AS, Hodgson GK, Golian KP, Impellizzeri S. Photochemical Insights on Intramolecular Dye‐Sensitized Free‐Radical Processes with a Quinoline Antenna. ChemistrySelect 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202100027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Aviya S. Akari
- Laboratory for Nanomaterials and Molecular Plasmonics Department of Chemistry and Biology Ryerson University 350 Victoria St. Toronto ON M5B 2K3 Canada
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- Laboratory for Nanomaterials and Molecular Plasmonics Department of Chemistry and Biology Ryerson University 350 Victoria St. Toronto ON M5B 2K3 Canada
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- Laboratory for Nanomaterials and Molecular Plasmonics Department of Chemistry and Biology Ryerson University 350 Victoria St. Toronto ON M5B 2K3 Canada
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- Laboratory for Nanomaterials and Molecular Plasmonics Department of Chemistry and Biology Ryerson University 350 Victoria St. Toronto ON M5B 2K3 Canada
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Raucci U, Savarese M, Adamo C, Ciofini I, Rega N. Modeling the Electron Transfer Chain in an Artificial Photosynthetic Machine. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:9738-9744. [PMID: 33141585 PMCID: PMC8016191 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
The development of efficient artificial leaves relies on the subtle combination of molecular assemblies able to absorb sunlight, converting light energy into electrochemical potential energy and finally transducing it into accessible chemical energy. The electronic design of these charge transfer molecular machines is crucial to build a complex supramolecular architecture for the light energy conversion. Here, we present an ab initio simulation of the whole decay pathways of a recently proposed artificial molecular reaction center. A complete structural and energetic characterization has been carried out with methods based on density functional theory, its time-dependent version, and a broken-symmetry approach. On the basis of our findings we provide a revision of the pathway only indirectly postulated from an experimental point of view, along with unprecedented and significant insights on the electronic and nuclear structure of intramolecular charge-separated states, which are fundamental for the application of this molecular assembly in photoelectrochemical cells. Importantly, we unravel the molecular driving forces of the various charge transfer steps, in particular those leading to the proton-coupled electron transfer final product, highlighting key elements for the future design strategies of such molecular assays.
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- Umberto Raucci
- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Chimie
ParisTech, PSL University,
CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, Theoretical
Chemistry and Modelling, 75005 Paris, France
- Institut
Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint Michel, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Chimie
ParisTech, PSL University,
CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, Theoretical
Chemistry and Modelling, 75005 Paris, France
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
- CRIB, Centro Interdipartimentale
di Ricerca sui Biomateriali P.zzale Tecchio, I-80125 Napoli, Italy
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Yadav IS, Alsaleh AZ, Misra R, D'Souza F. Charge stabilization via electron exchange: excited charge separation in symmetric, central triphenylamine derived, dimethylaminophenyl-tetracyanobutadiene donor-acceptor conjugates. Chem Sci 2020; 12:1109-1120. [PMID: 34163878 PMCID: PMC8179009 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04648e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Photoinduced charge separation in donor-acceptor conjugates plays a pivotal role in technology breakthroughs, especially in the areas of efficient conversion of solar energy into electrical energy and fuels. Extending the lifetime of the charge separated species is a necessity for their practical utilization, and this is often achieved by following the mechanism of natural photosynthesis where the process of electron/hole migration occurs distantly separating the radical ion pairs. Here, we hypothesize and demonstrate a new mechanism to stabilize the charge separated states via the process of electron exchange among the different acceptor entities in multimodular donor-acceptor conjugates. For this, star-shaped, central triphenylamine derived, dimethylamine-tetracyanobutadiene conjugates have been newly designed and characterized. Electron exchange was witnessed upon electroreduction in conjugates having multiple numbers of electron acceptors. Using ultrafast spectroscopy, the occurrence of excited state charge separation, and the effect of electron exchange in prolonging the lifetime of charge separated states in the conjugates having multiple acceptors have been successfully demonstrated. This work constitutes the first example of stabilizing charge-separated states via the process of electron exchange.
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- Indresh S Yadav
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore 453552 India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203-5017 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore 453552 India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203-5017 USA
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Benitz A, Thomas MB, Silva I, Nesterov VN, Verbeck GF, D'Souza F. Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Axially Coordinated Supramolecular Zinc Tetrapyrrole Bis(styryl)BODIPY Donor‐Acceptor Conjugates. CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202000221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Alejandro Benitz
- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203–5017 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203–5017 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203–5017 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203–5017 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203–5017 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203–5017 USA
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Popli C, Jang Y, Patil Y, Misra R, D'Souza F. Formation of Highly Efficient, Long‐Lived Charge Separated States in Star‐Shaped Ferrocene‐Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Triphenylamine Donor–Acceptor–Donor Conjugates. Chemistry 2020; 26:15109-15115. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Charu Popli
- Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Indore 453552 India
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203-5017 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Indore 453552 India
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- Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Indore 453552 India
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203-5017 USA
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Tran TT, Rabah J, Ha-Thi MH, Allard E, Nizinski S, Burdzinski G, Aloïse S, Fensterbank H, Baczko K, Nasrallah H, Vallée A, Clavier G, Miomandre F, Pino T, Méallet-Renault R. Photoinduced Electron Transfer and Energy Transfer Processes in a Flexible BODIPY-C 60 Dyad. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:9396-9410. [PMID: 32897728 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A new donor-acceptor dyad composed of a BODIPY (4,4'-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene) donor and a fullerene C60 acceptor has been synthesized and characterized. This derivative has been prepared using a clickable fullerene building block that bears an alkyne moiety and a maleimide unit. The post-functionalization of the maleimide group by a BODIPY thiol leads to a BODIPY-C60 dyad, leaving the alkyne moiety for further functional arrangement. On the basis of the combination of semi-empirical and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, spectroelectrochemical experiments, and steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopies, the photophysical properties of this new BODIPY-C60 dyad were thoroughly studied. By using semi-empirical calculations, the equilibrium of three conformations of the BODIPY-C60 dyad has been deduced, and their molecular orbital structures have been analyzed using DFT calculations. Two short fluorescence lifetimes were attributed to two extended conformers displaying variable donor-acceptor distances (17.5 and 20.0 Å). Additionally, the driving force for photoinduced electron transfer from the singlet excited state of BODIPY to the C60 moiety was calculated using redox potentials determined with electrochemical studies. Spectroelectrochemical measurements were also carried out to investigate the absorption profiles of radicals in the BODIPY-C60 dyad in order to assign the transient species in pump-probe experiments. Under selective photoexcitation of the BODIPY moiety, occurrences of both energy and electron transfers were demonstrated for the dyad by femtosecond and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopies. Photoinduced electron transfer occurs in the folded conformer, while energy transfer is observed in extended conformers.
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- Thu-Trang Tran
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay, France.,Faculty of Physics and Technology, Thai Nguyen University of Science, Thai Nguyen 24000, Vietnam
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Fac Phys, Quantum Elect Lab, PL-61614 Poznan, Poland
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- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Fac Phys, Quantum Elect Lab, PL-61614 Poznan, Poland
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- Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman, UMR-CNRS 8516, Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, 78000 Versailles, France
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- PPSM, UMR-CNRS 8531, ENS Paris Saclay, 61 Avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 Cachan, France
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- PPSM, UMR-CNRS 8531, ENS Paris Saclay, 61 Avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 Cachan, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay, France
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Domcke W, Sobolewski AL, Schlenker CW. Photooxidation of water with heptazine-based molecular photocatalysts: Insights from spectroscopy and computational chemistry. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:100902. [PMID: 32933269 DOI: 10.1063/5.0019984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present a conspectus of recent joint spectroscopic and computational studies that provided novel insight into the photochemistry of hydrogen-bonded complexes of the heptazine (Hz) chromophore with hydroxylic substrate molecules (water and phenol). It was found that a functionalized derivative of Hz, tri-anisole-heptazine (TAHz), can photooxidize water and phenol in a homogeneous photochemical reaction. This allows the exploration of the basic mechanisms of the proton-coupled electron-transfer (PCET) process involved in the water photooxidation reaction in well-defined complexes of chemically tunable molecular chromophores with chemically tunable substrate molecules. The unique properties of the excited electronic states of the Hz molecule and derivatives thereof are highlighted. The potential energy landscape relevant for the PCET reaction has been characterized by judicious computational studies. These data provided the basis for the demonstration of rational laser control of PCET reactions in TAHz-phenol complexes by pump-push-probe spectroscopy, which sheds light on the branching mechanisms occurring by the interaction of nonreactive locally excited states of the chromophore with reactive intermolecular charge-transfer states. Extrapolating from these results, we propose a general scenario that unravels the complex photoinduced water-splitting reaction into simple sequential light-driven one-electron redox reactions followed by simple dark radical-radical recombination reactions.
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- Wolfgang Domcke
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Sakakibara K, Tomida K, Nakagawa T, Yagyu T, Takagi HD, Inamo M. Intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer reactions of zinc(II) porphyrin dyads studied with a sub-ns time resolution. J PORPHYR PHTHALOCYA 2020. [DOI: 10.1142/s1088424620500224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We report the dynamics of a intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer reaction of Zn(II)-porphyrin dyads that have a 2,2[Formula: see text]-bipyridine moiety at the periphery in the presence of Cu[Formula: see text] in methanol studied using laser flash photolysis with a sub-nanosecond time resolution. The photoinduced electron transfer reactions were observed from the excited [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] states of the Zn(II)-porphyrin to the Cu(II)-2,2[Formula: see text]-bipyridine moiety, and the structural dependence of the reactivity were discussed in terms of the distance between the electron donating and accepting centers.
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- Kei Sakakibara
- Department of Chemistry, Aichi University of Education, Igaya, Kariya 448-8542, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Aichi University of Education, Igaya, Kariya 448-8542, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Aichi University of Education, Igaya, Kariya 448-8542, Japan
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Raucci U, Chiariello MG, Coppola F, Perrella F, Savarese M, Ciofini I, Rega N. An electron density based analysis to establish the electronic adiabaticity of proton coupled electron transfer reactions. J Comput Chem 2020; 41:1835-1841. [PMID: 32500950 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Electrons and protons are the main actors in play in proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions, which are fundamental in many biological (i.e., photosynthesis and enzymatic reactions) and electrochemical processes. The mechanism, energetics and kinetics of PCET reactions are strongly controlled by the coupling between the transferred electrons and protons. Concerted PCET reactions are classified according to the electronical adiabaticity degree of the process. To discriminate among different mechanisms, we propose a new analysis based on the use of electron density based indexes. We choose, as test case, the 3-Methylphenoxyl/phenol system in two different conformations to show how the proposed analysis is a suitable tool to discriminate between the different degree of adiabaticity of PCET processes. The very low computational cost of this procedure is extremely promising to analyze and provide evidences of PCET mechanisms ruling the reactivity of many biological and catalytic systems.
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- Umberto Raucci
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, Paris, France
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy.,CRIB Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare, Napoli, Italy
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Martín‐Gomis L, Díaz‐Puertas R, Seetharaman S, Karr PA, Fernández‐Lázaro F, D'Souza F, Sastre‐Santos Á. Distance Matters: Effect of the Spacer Length on the Photophysical Properties of Multimodular Perylenediimide–Silicon Phthalocyanine–Fullerene Triads. Chemistry 2020; 26:4822-4832. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201905605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Luis Martín‐Gomis
- División de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería Universidad Miguel Hernández Avda. de la Universidad s/n 03203 Elche Spain
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- División de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería Universidad Miguel Hernández Avda. de la Universidad s/n 03203 Elche Spain
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas at Denton 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203-5017 USA
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- Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics Wayne State College 1111 Main Street Wayne Nebraska 68787 USA
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- División de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería Universidad Miguel Hernández Avda. de la Universidad s/n 03203 Elche Spain
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- Department of Chemistry University of North Texas at Denton 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton TX 76203-5017 USA
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- División de Química Orgánica, Instituto de Bioingeniería Universidad Miguel Hernández Avda. de la Universidad s/n 03203 Elche Spain
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Freitag L, Ma Y, Baiardi A, Knecht S, Reiher M. Approximate Analytical Gradients and Nonadiabatic Couplings for the State-Average Density Matrix Renormalization Group Self-Consistent-Field Method. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 15:6724-6737. [PMID: 31670947 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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We present an approximate scheme for analytical gradients and nonadiabatic couplings for calculating state-average density matrix renormalization group self-consistent-field wave function. Our formalism follows closely the state-average complete active space self-consistent-field (SA-CASSCF) ansatz, which employs a Lagrangian, and the corresponding Lagrange multipliers are obtained from a solution of the coupled-perturbed CASSCF (CP-CASSCF) equations. We introduce a definition of the matrix product state (MPS) Lagrange multipliers based on a single-site tensor in a mixed-canonical form of the MPS, such that a sweep procedure is avoided in the solution of the CP-CASSCF equations. We apply our implementation to the optimization of a conical intersection in 1,2-dioxetanone, where we are able to fully reproduce the SA-CASSCF result up to arbitrary accuracy.
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- Leon Freitag
- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Computer Network Information Center , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190 , China.,Center of Scientific Computing Applications & Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190 , China
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 , 8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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Krug M, Stangel C, Zieleniewska A, Clark T, Torres T, Coutsolelos AG, Guldi DM. Combining Zinc Phthalocyanines, Oligo(p-Phenylenevinylenes), and Fullerenes to Impact Reorganization Energies and Attenuation Factors. Chemphyschem 2019; 20:2806-2815. [PMID: 31471925 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201900780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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A study on electron transfer in three electron donor-acceptor complexes is reported. These architectures consist of a zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) as the excited-state electron donor and a fullerene (C60 ) as the ground-state electron acceptor. These complexes are brought together by axial coordination at ZnPc. The key variable in our design is the length of the molecular spacer, namely, oligo-p-phenylenevinylenes. The lack of appreciable ground-state interactions is in accordance with strong excited-state interactions, as inferred from the quenching of ZnPc centered fluorescence and the presence of a short-lived fluorescence component. Full-fledged femtosecond and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy assays corroborated that the ZnPc ⋅ + -C60 ⋅ - charge-separated state formation comes at the expense of excited-state interactions following ZnPc photoexcitation. At a first glance, the ZnPc ⋅ + -C60 ⋅ - charge-separated state lifetime increased from 0.4 to 86.6 ns as the electron donor-acceptor separation increased from 8.8 to 29.1 Å. A closer look at the kinetics revealed that the changes in charge-separated state lifetime are tied to a decrease in the electronic coupling element from 132 to 1.2 cm-1 , an increase in the reorganization energy of charge transfer from 0.43 to 0.63 eV, and a large attenuation factor of 0.27 Å-1 .
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- Marcel Krug
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, Egerlandstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Voutes Campus, 71003, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.,Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, Athens, 11635, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, Egerlandstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, Egerlandstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- IMDEA-Nanociencia, C/Faraday, 9, Cantoblanco, 28049 -, Madrid, Spain.,Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Voutes Campus, 71003, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, Egerlandstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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Sekaran B, Jang Y, Misra R, D'Souza F. Push-Pull Porphyrins via β-Pyrrole Functionalization: Evidence of Excited State Events Leading to High-Potential Charge-Separated States. Chemistry 2019; 25:12991-13001. [PMID: 31415117 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A new set of free-base and zinc(II)-metallated, β-pyrrole-functionalized unsymmetrical push-pull porphyrins were designed and synthesized via β-mono- and dibrominated tetraphenylporphyrins using Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions. The ability of donors and acceptors on the push-pull porphyrins to produce high-potential charge separated states was investigated. The porphyrins were functionalized at the opposite β,β'-pyrrole positions of porphyrin ring bearing triphenylamine push groups and naphthalimide pull groups. Systematic studies involving optical absorption, steady-state and time-resolved emission revealed existence of intramolecular type interactions both in the ground and excited states. The push-pull nature of the molecular systems was supported by frontier orbitals generated on optimized structures, wherein delocalization of HOMO over the push group and LUMO over the pull group connecting the porphyrin π-system was witnessed. Electrochemical studies were performed to visualize the effect of push and pull groups on the overall redox potentials of the porphyrins. Spectroelectrochemical studies combined with frontier orbitals helped in characterizing the one-electron oxidized and reduced porphyrins. Finally, by performing transient absorption studies in polar benzonitrile, the ability of push-pull porphyrins to produce charge-separated states upon photoexcitation was confirmed and the measured rates were in the range of 109 s-1 . The lifetime of the final charge separated state was around 5 ns. This study ascertains the importance of push-pull porphyrins in solar energy conversion and diverse optoelectronic applications, for which high-potential charge-separated states are warranted.
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- Bijesh Sekaran
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, 453552, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX, 76203-5017, USA
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Triplet BODIPY and AzaBODIPY Derived Donor‐acceptor Dyads: Competitive Electron Transfer versus Intersystem Crossing upon Photoexcitation. CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201900189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Nayak S, Ray A, Bhattacharya S, Bauri A, Banerjee S. Photophysical insights on a new supramolecular recognition element comprising PyC60 and a bisporphyrin studied in solution. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.04.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Bhandari S, Dunietz BD. Quantitative Accuracy in Calculating Charge Transfer State Energies in Solvated Molecular Complexes Using a Screened Range Separated Hybrid Functional within a Polarized Continuum Model. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 15:4305-4311. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Srijana Bhandari
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, United States
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Küçüköz B, Adinarayana B, Osuka A, Albinsson B. Electron transfer reactions in sub-porphyrin-naphthyldiimide dyads. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:16477-16485. [PMID: 31321401 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03725j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A series of donor-acceptor compounds based on a sub-porphyrin (SubP) as an electron donor and naphthyldiimide (NDI) as an acceptor has been designed, synthesized and investigated by time-resolved emission and transient absorption measurements. The donor and acceptor are separated by a single phenyl spacer substituted by methyl groups in order to systematically vary the electronic coupling. The electron transfer reactions in toluene are found to be quite fast; charge separation is quantitative and occurs within 5-10 ps and charge recombination occurs in 1-10 ns, depending on the substitution pattern. As expected, when steric bulk is introduced on the adjoining phenyl group, electron transfer rates slow down because of smaller electronic coupling. Quantum mechanical modelling of the potential energy for twisting the dihedral angles combined with a simplified model of the electronic coupling semi-quantitatively explains the observed variation of the electron transfer rates. Investigating the temperature variation of the charge separation in 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MTHF) and analyzing using the Marcus model allow experimental estimation of the electronic coupling and reorganization energies. At low temperature, relatively strong phosphorescence is observed from the donor-acceptor compounds with onset at 660 nm signaling that charge recombination occurs, at least partially, through the sub-porphyrin localized triplet excited state. Finally, it is noted that charge separation in all SubP-NDI dyads is efficient even at cryogenic temperatures (85 K) in 2-MTHF glass.
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- Betül Küçüköz
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Recent advances in photoinduced catalysis for water splitting and environmental applications. J IND ENG CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2019.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Cho J, Sheng A, Suwandaratne N, Wangoh L, Andrews JL, Zhang P, Piper LFJ, Watson DF, Banerjee S. The Middle Road Less Taken: Electronic-Structure-Inspired Design of Hybrid Photocatalytic Platforms for Solar Fuel Generation. Acc Chem Res 2019; 52:645-655. [PMID: 30543407 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The development of efficient solar energy conversion to augment other renewable energy approaches is one of the grand challenges of our time. Water splitting, or the disproportionation of H2O into energy-dense fuels, H2 and O2, is undoubtedly a promising strategy. Solar water splitting involves the concerted transfer of four electrons and four protons, which requires the synergistic operation of solar light harvesting, charge separation, mass and charge transport, and redox catalysis processes. It is unlikely that individual materials can mediate the entire sequence of charge and mass transport as well as energy conversion processes necessary for photocatalytic water splitting. An alternative approach, emulating the functioning of photosynthetic systems, involves the utilization of hybrid systems wherein different components perform the various functions required for solar water splitting. The design of such hybrid systems requires the multiple components to operate in lockstep with optimal thermodynamic driving forces and interfacial charge transfer kinetics. This Account describes a new class of nanoscale heterostructures comprising M xV2O5 nanowires, where M is a p-block cation with a ( n - 1) d10 ns2 np0 electronic configuration characterized by a stereoactive lone pair of electrons and x is its stoichiometry, interfaced with II-VI semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). Photocatalytic water splitting involves the transfer of excited-state holes from QDs to mid-gap states (derived from the stereoactive lone pairs of p-block cations) of nanowires, hole transport through nanowires, the reduction of protons at a QD-immobilized catalyst, and water oxidation at an anode. The M xV2O5/QD architectures provide a vast design space for evolutionary optimization of function with considerable tunability of composition and structure of the individual components as well as of the interfacial structure, thereby facilitating programmability of absorption spectra, energetic offsets, and charge-transfer reactivity. The available design space spans choice of the p-block cation M, its stoichiometry x, the composition and size of various QDs, and the nature of the nanowire/QD interface. This multivariate parameter space has been navigated by integrating first-principles modeling, diversified synthesis, spectroscopic measurements, and catalytic evaluation to facilitate the rational design of several generations of heterostructures and the systematic improvement of their photocatalytic performance. The electronic structures of the target heterostructures are predicted by DFT calculations in light of the revised lone pair model of stereoactive structural distortions and evaluated by hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy such as to systematically tune the interfacial band offsets. Central to this approach is the development of a topochemical "etch-a-sketch" intercalation approach that allows for facile installation of p-block cations in metastable polymorphs of V2O5. The interfacial charge transfer kinetics of M xV2O5/QD heterostructures is further evaluated by transient absorption spectroscopy to measure excited-state charge-transfer dynamics and is found to depend sensitively on interfacial structure and the thermodynamic driving forces in accordance with Marcus theory. The integration of theory and experiment has allowed for the design of viable photocatalytic architectures exemplified by the exceptional catalytic performance of β-Pb xV2O5/CdX (X= S, Se) architectures, which has subsequently been elaborated to other lone-pair M xV2O5 compounds, demonstrating the effective exploitation of the opportunities for programmability available in the design space.
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- Junsang Cho
- Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842-3012, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States
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- Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842-3012, United States
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- Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842-3012, United States
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Saha M, Bandyopadhyay S. Reversible photoresponsive activity of a carbonic anhydrase mimic. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:3294-3297. [PMID: 30810568 DOI: 10.1039/c9cc00018f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzyme reversibly transforms carbon dioxide and water to a carbonate ion and a proton. Photoresponsive enzyme mimics, where the CA-activity can be turned on and off reversibly with light, have not been reported so far. We have designed an active site mimic that offers reversible control of the catalytic activity using light. Moreover, in the presence of a cationic polymer, we have demonstrated that the CA-activity was further enhanced by stabilizing the transition state with the cis-form of the enzyme mimic which can catalyze the hydration of gaseous CO2.
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- Monochura Saha
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741246, India.
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Pang X, Jiang C, Xie W, Domcke W. Photoinduced electron-driven proton transfer from water to an N-heterocyclic chromophore: nonadiabatic dynamics studies for pyridine–water clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:14073-14079. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp07015f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We performed the excited-state dynamics simulations for pyridine–water clusters and found the more water molecules involved in the cluster, the higher efficiency the water-splitting reaction has, which is qualitatively in consistent with a recent gas-phase experimental observations.
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- Xiaojuan Pang
- Key Laboratory for Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices
- China
- Department of Applied Physics
- Xi’an Jiaotong University
- Xi’an 710049
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- Key Laboratory for Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices
- China
- Department of Applied Physics
- Xi’an Jiaotong University
- Xi’an 710049
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technical University of Munich
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technical University of Munich
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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Tejeda-Ferrari ME, Brown CL, Coutinho GCCC, Gomes de Sá GA, Palma JL, Llansola-Portoles MJ, Kodis G, Mujica V, Ho J, Gust D, Moore TA, Moore AL. Electronic Structure and Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer in Artificial Photosynthetic Antennas. Photochem Photobiol 2018; 95:211-219. [DOI: 10.1111/php.12979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 06/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- School of Molecular Sciences; Arizona State University; Tempe AZ
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- Department of Chemistry; The Pennsylvania State University; Lemont Furnace PA
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC); CEA; CNRS; Université Paris-Saclay; Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex France
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- School of Molecular Sciences; Arizona State University; Tempe AZ
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- School of Molecular Sciences; Arizona State University; Tempe AZ
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- School of Chemistry; University of New South Wales; Sydney NSW Australia
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- School of Molecular Sciences; Arizona State University; Tempe AZ
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- School of Molecular Sciences; Arizona State University; Tempe AZ
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- School of Molecular Sciences; Arizona State University; Tempe AZ
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"Click" Methodology for the Functionalization of Water Oxidation Catalyst Iridium Oxide Nanoparticles with Hydrophobic Dyes for Artificial Photosynthetic Constructs. Methods Mol Biol 2018. [PMID: 29978411 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7786-4_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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The unusually high tolerance toward chemical functional groups of the copper(I)-catalyzed Huisgen-Sharpless-Meldal 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides and alkynes protocol (the CuAAC or "click" reaction) associated with its mild conditions and high yields has been explored in the present methodology to successfully prepare water oxidation catalyst iridium oxide nanoparticles decorated with organic dyes. The "click reaction" has proven to be an excellent synthetic tool to overcome the incompatible solubility of the hydrophilic iridium oxide nanoparticles and the hydrophobic dyes. A complex artificial photosynthetic model designed to mimic the photoinduced redox processes occurring in photosystem II is used as a hydrophobic dye to highlight the efficiency and selectiveness of the method.
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Teramura K, Tanaka T. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the successful three-phase photocatalytic reduction of CO 2 by H 2O over heterogeneous photocatalysts. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018. [PMID: 29542742 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07783a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Artificial photosynthesis has recently drawn an increasing amount of attention due to the fact that it allows for direct solar-to-chemical energy conversion. However, one of the basic steps of this process, namely the reduction of CO2 by H2O to afford O2 and CO2 reduction products (CO2RPs) such as HCOOH, CO, HCHO, CH3OH, and CH4, is very difficult to achieve. In contrast to the CO2 reduction in plants and homogenous systems, the reduction of CO2 to CO2RPs over heterogeneous photocatalysts was challenged by the competing reduction of H+ to H2. Unfortunately, most of the research performed so far has focused only on the reduction of CO2, rather than the characterization of the H2O oxidation and H2 production. Moreover, the fact that the heterogeneous photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into CO2RPs by H2O should satisfy several selectivity criteria has often been ignored. Herein, we propose three such evaluation criteria, namely (1) the origin of carbon in CO2RPs (determined using isotopically labeled CO2 (13CO2)), (2) the relative amount of H2 and CO2RPs produced, and (3) the amount of O2 produced by the oxidation of H2O. If all these criteria are satisfied, i.e., the carbons of CO2RPs originate from CO2, the amount of H2 produced is negligible, and a stoichiometric amount of O2 is produced by the oxidation of H2O, then CO2 introduced into the gas phase is believed to be reduced by H2O to CO2RPs in the aqueous phase.
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- Kentaro Teramura
- Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyotodaigaku Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
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Münich PW, Schierl C, Dirian K, Volland M, Bauroth S, Wibmer L, Syrgiannis Z, Clark T, Prato M, Guldi DM. Tuning the Carbon Nanotube Selectivity: Optimizing Reduction Potentials and Distortion Angles in Perylenediimides. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:5427-5433. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b00452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Peter W. Münich
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
- Computer-Chemie-Centrum, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, INSTM unit of Trieste, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Computer-Chemie-Centrum, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052 Erlangen, Germany
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- Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, INSTM unit of Trieste, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
- Carbon Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, 20009 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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Webre WA, Gobeze HB, Shao S, Karr PA, Ariga K, Hill JP, D'Souza F. Fluoride-ion-binding promoted photoinduced charge separation in a self-assembled C 60 alkyl cation bound bis-crown ether-oxoporphyrinogen supramolecule. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 54:1351-1354. [PMID: 29350717 DOI: 10.1039/c7cc09524d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A bis-crown ether-oxoporphyrinogen was newly synthesized and self-assembled concurrently with C60 alkyl ammonium cations at the crown ether sites and F- anions (through hydrogen bonding) at the oxoporphyrinogen core. Ultrafast photoinduced charge transfer processes within the donor-acceptor conjugate were promoted by fluoride ion binding and this was established using various spectroscopic methods and transient absorption studies.
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- Whitney A Webre
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA.
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Stangel C, Plass F, Charisiadis A, Giannoudis E, Chararalambidis G, Karikis K, Rotas G, Zervaki GE, Lathiotakis NN, Tagmatarchis N, Kahnt A, Coutsolelos AG. Interfacing tetrapyridyl-C60 with porphyrin dimers via π-conjugated bridges: artificial photosynthetic systems with ultrafast charge separation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:21269-21279. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03172j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A novel D–π–A supramolecular hybrid system is reported, consisting of a fullerene derivative as electron acceptor and zinc porphyrin dimers as electron donors.
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Hu G, Kang HS, Mandal AK, Roy A, Kirmaier C, Bocian DF, Holten D, Lindsey JS. Synthesis of arrays containing porphyrin, chlorin, and perylene-imide constituents for panchromatic light-harvesting and charge separation. RSC Adv 2018; 8:23854-23874. [PMID: 35540249 PMCID: PMC9081848 DOI: 10.1039/c8ra04052d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Achieving solar light harvesting followed by efficient charge separation and transport is an essential objective of molecular-based artificial photosynthesis. Architectures that afford strong absorption across the near-UV to near-infrared region, namely panchromatic absorptivity, are critically important given the broad spectral distribution of sunlight. A tetrapyrrole–perylene pentad array was synthesized and investigated as a means to integrate panchromatic light harvesting and intramolecular charge separation. The pentad consists of three moieties: (1) a panchromatically absorbing triad, in which a porphyrin is strongly coupled to two perylene-monoimides via ethyne linkages; (2) a perylene-diimide electron acceptor; and (3) a chlorin hole-trapping unit. Integrating the three components with diphenylethyne linkers generates moderate electronic coupling for intramolecular energy and hole/electron transfer. The construction of the array relies on a stepwise strategy for incorporating modular pigment building blocks. The key building blocks include a trans-A2BC porphyrin, a chlorin, a perylene-monoimide, and a perylene-diimide, each bearing appropriate (halo, ethynyl) synthetic handles for Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reactions. One target pentad, three tetrads, four triads, and four monomeric benchmark compounds were synthesized from six building blocks (three new, three reported) and 10 new synthetic intermediates. Four of the tetrapyrrole-containing arrays are zinc chelated, and four others are in the free base form. Absorption and fluorescence spectra and fluorescence quantum yields were also measured. Collectively, investigations of the arrays reveal insights into principles for the design of novel reaction centers integrated with a panchromatic antenna for artificial photosynthetic studies. Twelve arrays containing porphyrin, chlorin, and/or perylene-imide units were synthesized to investigate panchromatic absorption integrated with charge separation.![]()
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- Gongfang Hu
- Department of Chemistry
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Washington University
- St. Louis
- USA
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Obondi CO, Lim GN, Martinez P, Swamy V, D'Souza F. Controlling electron and energy transfer paths by selective excitation in a zinc porphyrin-BODIPY-C 60 multi-modular triad. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:18054-18065. [PMID: 29131227 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr06687b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A multi-modular donor-acceptor triad composed of zinc porphyrin, BF2-chelated dipyrromethene (BODIPY), and C60 was newly synthesized, with the BODIPY entity at the central position. Using absorbance and emission spectral, electrochemical redox, and computational optimization results, energy level diagrams for the ZnP-BODIPY dyad and ZnP-BODIPY-C60 triad were constructed to envision the different photochemical events upon selective excitation of the BODIPY and ZnP entities. By transient absorption spectral studies covering a wide femtosecond-to-millisecond time scale, evidence for the different photochemical events and their kinetic information was secured. Efficient singlet-singlet energy transfer from 1BODIPY* to ZnP with a rate constant kENT = 1.7 × 1010 s-1 in toluene was observed in the case of the ZnP-BODIPY dyad. Interestingly, in the case of the ZnP-BODIPY-C60 triad, the selective excitation of ZnP resulted in electron transfer leading to the formation of the ZnP˙+-BODIPY-C60˙- charge-separated state. Owing to the distal separation of the radical cation and radical anion species (edge-to-edge distance of 18.7 Å), the radical ion-pair persisted for microseconds. By contrast, the selective excitation of BODIPY resulted in an ultrafast energy transfer to yield ZnP-BODIPY-1C60* as the major product. The 1C60* populated the low-lying 3C60* via intersystem crossing prior to returning to the ground state. The present study successfully demonstrates the importance of supramolecular geometry and selection of excitation wavelength in regulating the different photoprocesses.
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- Christopher O Obondi
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA.
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Stevenson MJ, Marguet SC, Schneider CR, Shafaat HS. Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution by Nickel-Substituted Rubredoxin. CHEMSUSCHEM 2017; 10:4424-4429. [PMID: 28948691 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201701627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2017] [Revised: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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An enzymatic system for light-driven hydrogen generation has been developed through covalent attachment of a ruthenium chromophore to nickel-substituted rubredoxin (NiRd). The photoinduced activity of the hybrid enzyme is significantly greater than that of a two-component system and is strongly dependent on the position of the ruthenium phototrigger relative to the active site, indicating a role for intramolecular electron transfer in catalysis. Steady-state and time-resolved emission spectra reveal a pathway for rapid, direct quenching of the ruthenium excited state by nickel, but low overall turnover numbers suggest initial electron transfer is not the rate-limiting step. This approach is ideally suited for detailed mechanistic investigations of catalysis by NiRd and other molecular systems, with implications for generation of solar fuels.
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- Michael J Stevenson
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Street, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
- Current address: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Street, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, 484 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Street, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
- Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, 484 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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