Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.361, 83-88, 2001
Photoinduced electron transfer dynamics for self-assembled porphyrin arrays in solutions and films
Electronic excitation energy deactivation in self-assembled porphyrin triads has been studied by the time correlated single photon counting technique as a function of the solvent polarity (toluene-acetone mixtures), temperature (77-350 K), and mutual spatial arrangement of the donor and acceptor subunits. The donor (Zn-octaethylporphyrin chemical dimer) fluorescence quenching with time constant of 1.7+10 ps is due to competing energy migration and electron transfer processes to the acceptor (dipyridyl substituted tetrapyrrole extra-ligand). The quenching of the acceptor fluorescence (by similar to1.3-1.6 times) does not significantly depend on the mutual spatial arrangement of the triad subunits and increases with the solvent polarity rising and the decrease of the: temperature. The obtained experimental data are analyzed using the reduced density matrix formalism in the Frame of Haken-Strobl-Reineker approach taking into account the energy transfer charge separation, and the dephasing of coherence between the excited electronic states of the triad.
Keywords:fluorescence lifetime shortening;donor-acceptor interactions;electron transfer;reduced density matrix formalism;coherence dephasing