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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 10, Issue 24, Pages 6393-6401Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200400624
Keywords
electron transfer; photochemistry; photosynthesis; porphyrinoids; self-assembly
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We synthesized special-pair/ electron -acceptor systems consisting of a complementary slipped cofacial dimer of imidazolyl-substituted zinc porphyrin, bearing pyromellitdiimide as the electron acceptor. In the case of the dimer, the first and second oxidation potentials were split into a total of four peaks in the differential pulse voltammetry measurement. Furthermore, the shift values of the first oxidation potentials obtained by changing the solvent polarity for the dimer were almost half of those observed for the monomer. These results indicate that the radical cation is delocalized over the whole pi system of the dimer. Time-resolved transient absorption measurements revealed that, relative to the corresponding monomer, the dimer accelerated the charge separation rate, but decelerated the charge recombination rate. The smaller reorganization energy of the slipped coafacial dimer relative to that of the monomeric system demonstrates the significance of the special-pair arrangement for efficient charge seperation in photosynthesis.
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