Charge transfer in covalently-linked porphyrin-donor complexes from picosecond transient absorption spectroscopy
摘要:
Octaalkyl free base porphyrins have been synthesized with covalently attached electron donors at a single meso position. Singlet-state lifetimes were determined from fluorescence quenching in three solvents and were found to be less-than-or-equal-to 1.5 ps for the N,N,N,N'-tetramethyl-1,4-phenylenediamine (TMPD) appended complex, 1.3 ns for the phenyl-TMPD-appended complex, and greater-than-or-equal-to 5 ns for the phertyl-appended, N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA) appended, and DMA-TMPD-appended porphyrin complexes in o-difluorobenzene. Single photon counting measurements and fluorescence quantum yield quenching studies of the phenyl-appended control and phenyl-TMPD charge-transfer complex gave 14 +/- 3 and 2 +/- 0.3 ns excited-state lifetimes, respectively. Fluorescence quantum yields of the TMPD and phenyl-TMPD porphyrins were higher in solvents with lower dielectric constants. Picosecond absorption spectroscopy was performed on molecules exhibiting fluorescence quenching to characterize the charge-transfer state and to determine the recombination kinetics. Conclusive evidence of charge transfer was obtained by observing the donor cation absorption at 606 nm for the TMPD and phenyl-TMPD porphyrins. Picosecond absorption changes in the 380-500-nm region are complete within 50 ps for the TMPD-appended free base porphyrin and 11.5 ns for the phenyl-TMPD-appended free base porphyrin. First-order kinetic analysis indicates that the charge recombination rates are 26 +/- 3 ps and 3.5 +/- 0.4 ns for the TMPD-appended and phenyl-TMPD-appended complexes, respectively. These data yield beta = 0.8-1.1 angstrom-1 for the exponent in the distance dependence of the electron-transfer rate, exp{-beta(r-r0)}. Inasmuch as similar beta values have been determined for electron transfer through saturated bonds, it can be concluded that the pi system of the meso substituents is ineffective in mediating electron transfer, as expected from the near orthogonality of the porphyrin and substituent rings. This is the first systematic study of electron transfer in porphyrin-donor complexes.
ortho-Lithiations Reassessed: the Advantages of Deficiency Catalysis in Hydrocarbon Media
摘要:
Hydrocarbon media based metalation procedures involving "deficiency catalysis" are described for the ortho-lithiation of anisole (A), p-chloroanisole (p-ClA), o-, m-, p-methylanisoles (o-, m-, p-MA), the three dimethoxybenzenes (DMB's), dimethylaniline (DMA), dimethybenzylamine (DMBA), m-methoxydimethylaniline (m-MeODM.A), and tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (p-TMPDA). These procedures involve certain mechanistic considerations, which must be fine-tuned to maximize the extent of metalation (EoM). Our working hypothesis is that a controlled deoligomerization of the n-BuLi hexamer found in hydrocarbon media will afford a "sweet spot" of deoligomerization such that a maximally efficient metalation medium can be formed. In many eases, a substoichiometric ratio of equivalent TMEDA to n-BuLi is 0.1-0.2:1.0, but certain substrates suffer multiple sites of metalation under these conditions, so different promoted hydrocarbon media systems incorporating measured equivalents of an ether have been formulated. This paper represents the summary of our successful efforts to render ortho-lithiations safer, greener, and more atom-economical by use of hydrocarbon solvent media. EoM's of 11 of the 12 substrates under these atom-economical conditions range from 87 to 97%.