Efficient electronic energy transfer (EET) in the newly synthesized dyads comprised of zinc porphyrin covalently linked to one, two or four numbers of boron dipyrrin (BDP) entities is investigated. Both steady-state and time-resolved emission as well as transient absorption studies revealed occurrence of efficient singlet–singlet energy transfer from BDP to zinc porphyrin with the time scale ranging between 28 and 48 ps. A decrease in time constants for energy transfer with increasing the number of BDP units is observed revealing better antenna effect of dyads bearing higher number of boron dipyrrin entities. Further, supramolecular triads to mimic the ‘antenna-reaction center’ functionality of photosynthetic reaction center have been successfully constructed by coordinating fulleropyrrolidine appended with an imidazole ligand to the zinc porphyrin. The structural integrity of the supramolecular triads was arrived by optical, computational and electrochemical studies. Free energy calculations revealed possibility of photoinduced electron transfer from singlet excited zinc porphyrin to fullerene, and the preliminary transient absorption studies involving pump–probe technique are supportive of occurrence of electron transfer from 1ZnP* to fullerene in the supramolecular triads.
在新合成的二元体中,
锌卟啉与一个、两个或四个
硼二
吡咯(
BDP)单元共价连接,研究了高效的电子能量转移(EET)。稳态和时间分辨发射以及瞬态吸收研究都显示从
BDP到
锌卟啉的有效单态-单态能量转移发生,时间尺度在28到48皮秒之间。随着
BDP单元数量的增加,能量转移的时间常数降低,显示出具有更高数量
硼二
吡咯单元的二元体具有更好的天线效应。此外,为了模拟光合反应中心的“天线-反应中心”功能,成功构建了超分子三元体,通过将带有
咪唑配体的
富勒烯吡咯烷与
锌卟啉配位。通过光学、计算和电
化学研究确认了超分子三元体的结构完整性。自由能计算揭示了从单态激发
锌卟啉到
富勒烯的光诱导电子转移的可能性,而初步的瞬态吸收研究涉及泵-探针技术,支持超分子三元体中从1ZnP*到
富勒烯的电子转移的发生。