Polymeric charge-transfer complexes showing persistent and reversible colour changes by photoinduced electron transfer.

Photoinduced charge accumulation by metal ion-coupled electron transfer.

An oligotriarylamine (OTA) unit, a Ru(bpy)3(2+) photosensitizer moiety (Ru), and an anthraquinone (AQ) entity were combined to a molecular dyad (Ru-OTA) and a molecular triad (AQ-Ru-OTA). Pulsed laser excitation at 532 nm led to the formation of charge-separated states of the type Ru(-)-OTA(+) and AQ(-)-Ru-OTA(+) with lifetimes of ≤10 ns and 2.4 μs, respectively, in de-aerated CH3CN at 25 °C. U...

Nonequilibrium photoinduced electron transfer

Photoinduced electron transfer between ruthenium complexes and nucleotides or DNA

The quenching of the luminescence of Ru(TAP)++, Ru(HAT)z(bpyp+ (TAP = 1,4,5$-tetraazaphenanthrene; HAT = 1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatphenylene; bpy = 2,2'bipyridyl) and related oxidising complexes by DNA, polynucleotides, and purine nucleotides occurs by reductive electron transfer. Laser flash photolysis provides evidence for the formation of the reduced metal complex and the deprotonated nucleotide ...

Ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer in face-to-face charge-transfer π-complexes of planar porphyrins and hexaazatriphenylene derivatives.

Charge-transfer (CT) π-complexes are formed between planar porphyrins and 1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene (HAT) derivatives with large formation constants (e.g., 104 M-1), exhibiting broad CT absorption bands. The unusually large formation constants result from close face-to-face contact between two planar π-planes of porphyrins and HAT derivatives. The redox potentials of porphyrins and HAT d...

Structural factors influencing the intramolecular charge transfer and photoinduced electron transfer in tetrapyrazinoporphyrazines.

A series of unsymmetrical tetrapyrazinoporphyrazines (TPyzPzs) from the group of azaphthalocyanines with one peripherally attached amino substituent (donor) were synthesized, and their photophysical properties (fluorescence quantum yield and singlet oxygen quantum yield) were determined. The synthesized TPyzPzs were expected to undergo intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) as the main pathway fo...