1
|
Chuncha V, Achary Balahoju S, Dutta S, Giribabu L, Chitta R. Investigating the role of corrole as an excitation energy relay in light-induced processes in closely connected N,N'-bis(biphenyl-4-yl)aniline functionalized corrole donor-acceptor dyad. Photochem Photobiol 2024; 100:1041-1054. [PMID: 38549042 DOI: 10.1111/php.13939] [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: 11/22/2023] [Revised: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
Abstract
A photosynthetic antenna-reaction center model, BBA-PFCor comprised of N,N'-bis(biphenyl-4-yl)aniline (BBA) covalently functionalized to bis(pentafluoro)corrole moiety has been prepared and the contribution of the BBA as the photoinduced energy transfer antenna was investigated. UV-visible studies have shown that integrating the electron-rich BBA chromophore into the corrole core has broadened the soret band of the corrole moiety with the absorption spanning from 300 to 700 nm. Electrochemical studies, in corroboration with the computational calculations, revealed that, BBA moiety can act as an electron reservoir and, in the excited state, it would transfer the excited energy to the corrole moiety in the dyad. Steady-state fluorescence studies have demonstrated that, upon photoexcitation of the BBA moiety of BBA-PFCor at 310 nm in solvents of varied polarity, the BBA emission centered at 400 nm was observed to be quenched, with the concomitant appearance of the corrole emission from 500 to 700 nm, indicating the happening of photoinduced energy transfer (PEnT) from 1BBA* to corrole moiety. Parallel control experiments involving the excitation of the corrole moiety at 410 nm did not result in the diminishing of the corrole emission, suggesting that the quenching of the BBA emission in BBA-PFCor is majorly due to intramolecular PEnT from 1BBA* to corrole moiety leading to the formation of singlet excited corrole, that is, 1BBA*-PFCor ➔ BBA-1PFCor*. The free energy changes of PEnT, ΔGEnT, were found to be thermodynamically feasible in all the solvents used for the study. Parallel time-resolved fluorescence studies were congruent with the steady-state fluorescence results and provided further evidence for the occurrence of ultrafast PEnT from 1BBA*➔corrole in the dyad with the rates of energy transfer (kEnT) of ~108 s-1.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Vijaykumar Chuncha
- Artificial Photosynthesis Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India
| | - Shivaprasad Achary Balahoju
- Polymers & Functional Materials Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
| | - Snigdha Dutta
- Artificial Photosynthesis Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India
| | - Lingamallu Giribabu
- Polymers & Functional Materials Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad, India
| | - Raghu Chitta
- Artificial Photosynthesis Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India
| |
Collapse
|
2
|
Photo-induced energy and electron transfer in carboxylic acid functionalized bis(4′-tert-butylbiphenyl-4-yl)aniline (BBA)-substituted A3B zinc porphyrins. J CHEM SCI 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-021-01958-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
|
3
|
Devulapally K, Reddy G, Prasanthkumar S, Jagadeesh A, Soman S, Giribabu L. Effect of auxiliary acceptor on D-π-A based porphyrin sensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells. J PORPHYR PHTHALOCYA 2021. [DOI: 10.1142/s1088424621500127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Among the tetrapyrrolic class of compounds, porphyrin based sensitizers have attracted considerable attention due to their excellent performance in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Herein, two new donor-[Formula: see text]-acceptor (D-[Formula: see text]-A) concept based porphyrin sensitizers having donor 3-ethynylphenothiazine tethered at meso- position, zinc porphyrin as [Formula: see text]-spacer and acceptor either 3-(4-(benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-yl)phenyl)-2-cyanoacrylic acid (LG22), and 3-(4-(benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-yl)thiophene-2-yl)-2-cyanoacrylicacid (LG23) were designed and synthesized. Both sensitizers were characterized by various spectroscopic techniques and electrochemical methods. Optical, electrochemical and optimized studies suggest that these dyes are suitable for sensitization of nanocrystalline TiO2. The optimized device studies showed the power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 1.86% and 1.37% for LG22 and LG23 dyes, respectively using [Formula: see text]/[Formula: see text] liquid redox shuttle. Finally, Charge Extraction (CE), Intensity Modulated Photovoltage Spectroscopy (IMVS), Intensity Modulated Photocurrent Spectroscopy (IMPS) and Open Circuit Voltage Decay (OCVD) measurements were adopted to understand in detail the electron transfer properties at various interfaces in a way to understand the performance limiting processes in these novel porphyrin sensitizers.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Koteshwar Devulapally
- Polymer and Functional Materials Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 500007, Telangana, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, New Delhi 201002, India
| | - Govind Reddy
- Polymer and Functional Materials Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 500007, Telangana, India
| | - Seelam Prasanthkumar
- Polymer and Functional Materials Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 500007, Telangana, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, New Delhi 201002, India
| | - Anooja Jagadeesh
- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram 695019, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, New Delhi 201002, India
| | - Suraj Soman
- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram 695019, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, New Delhi 201002, India
| | - Lingamallu Giribabu
- Polymer and Functional Materials Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 500007, Telangana, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, New Delhi 201002, India
| |
Collapse
|