Photoinduced intramolecular events of the newly synthesized fullerene–triphenylamine–fullerene (C60–TPA–C60) triad, in which the TPA entity was substituted with an electron-donating CH3O-group to increase electron-donating ability, were investigated in relation to a C60–TPA dyad. The molecular orbital calculations showed that the radical cation is located on the TPA entity, whereas the radical anion is located on two C60 entities in the radical ion pair. The fluorescence intensity of the singlet excited state of C60 was efficiently quenched by the attached TPA moiety in polar solvents. The quenching pathway involves a charge-separation process from the TPA to the singlet excited state C60. The lifetimes of the radical ion-pairs for C60–TPA–C60 evaluated from nanosecond transient absorption measurements were found to be 600 and 454 ns in benzonitrile and dimethylformamide, respectively. These lifetimes of radical ion-pairs of C60–TPA–C60 are longer than those of the C60–TPA dyad, which reflects the effect of the second C60 moiety in stabilizing the radical ion-pairs.
研究了新合成的
富勒烯-
三苯胺-
富勒烯(C60–
TPA–C60)三元体系的光诱导分子内事件,其中
TPA单元被电子给予基团
CH3O取代以增强电子给予能力,并与C60–
TPA二元体系进行了比较。分子轨道计算表明,自由基阳离子位于
TPA单元上,而自由基阴离子则位于两个C60单元上,形成自由基离子对。在极性溶剂中,附加的
TPA部分有效淬灭了C60的单态激发态的荧光强度。淬灭路径涉及从
TPA到单态激发态C60的电荷分离过程。通过纳秒瞬态吸收测量评估得出的C60–
TPA–C60的自由基离子对的寿命在苯腈和二甲基甲酰胺中分别为600和454纳秒。这些C60–
TPA–C60的自由基离子对的寿命长于C60–
TPA二元体系,反映了第二个C60单元在稳定自由基离子对方面的影响。