Photoinduced Energy and Electron Transfer in a ‘Two‐Point’ Bound Panchromatic, Near‐Infrared‐Absorbing Bis‐styrylBODIPY(Zinc Porphyrin)2 – Fullerene Self‐Assembled Supramolecular Conjugate

Author:

Shao Shuai1,Gobeze Habtom B.1,De Silva Imesha W.1,Schaffner Jacob1,Verbeck Guido12,Karr Paul A.3,D'Souza Francis1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle, #305070 Denton, TX 76203-5017 U.S.A

2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Augusta University 1120 15th Street Augusta, GA 0912 U.S.A

3. Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics Wayne State College 1111 Main Street Wayne, Nebraska 68787 U.S.A

Abstract

AbstractStructurally 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.

Funder

Division of Chemistry

Publisher

Wiley

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