Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages 2251-2260Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200500029
Keywords
charge transfer; donor-acceptor systems; electron transfer; energy conversion; inverted-region effect
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Photoinduced electron transfer is a widely applied method to convert photon energy into a useful (electro)chemical potential, both in nature and in artificial devices. There is a continuing effort to develop molecular systems in which the charge-transfer state, populated by photoinduced electron transfer, survives sufficiently long to top the energy stored in it. In general this has been found to require the construction of rather complex molecular systems, but more recently a few approaches have been reported that allow the use of much more simple and relatively small electron donor-acceptor dyads for this purpose. The most successful examples of such systems seem to be those that apply electron spin control to slow down the spontaneous decay of the charge-transfer state, and these are reviewed in this minireview, with a discussion of the underlying principles and a critical evaluation of some of the claims made with regard to using a pronounced inverted-region effect as on alternative method to prolong the lifetime of charge-transfer states.
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