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JOURNAL OF PORPHYRINS AND PHTHALOCYANINES
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 993-1004Publisher
WORLD SCI PUBL CO INC
DOI: 10.1142/S1088424608000376
Keywords
photoinduced electron transfer; photosynthesis; Lewis acid; charge separation; reorganization energy; donor-acceptor dyad; Marcus theory
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
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Control of electron-transfer processes is described for a number of electron donor-acceptor dyads containing porphyrins or phthalocyanines as models for the photosynthetic reaction center. The rates for intramolecular electron transfer in the dyads are controlled by the driving force and reorganization energy of electron transfer. The small reorganization energy of electron transfer reactions and large driving force of charge recombination are required to form long-lived charge-separated states. A directly linked zinc chlorin-fullerene dyad, especially, has the longest lifetime of charge-separated state at 120 s at -150 degrees C, which is a much longer lifetime and higher energy than those of natural photosynthetic reaction centers. On the other hand, the charge-separated states of the phthalocyanine-based donor-acceptor dyads (silicon phthalocyanine-fullerene, and zinc phthalocyanine-perylenebisimide) are short-lived since charge recombination forms the low-lying triplet excited state of the chromophore. The energy of the charge-separated state of a zinc phthalocyanine-perylenebisimide dyad is decreased by binding of metal ions to the radical anion moiety in order to be lower than the triplet excited state. This results in formation of a long-lived charge-sepearated state. The mechanistic viability of formation of long-lived charge-separated states is demonstrated by a variety of examples based on the Marcus theory of electron transfer. Copyright (C) 2008 Society of Porphyrins & Phthalocyanines.
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