Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.108, No.16, 3276-3280, 2004
Time-resolved EPR and transient absorption studies on phthalocyaninatosilicon covalently linked to two PROXYL radicals
By the combined use of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and transient absorption measurements, photophysical properties of tetra-tert-butylphthalocyaninatosilicon (SiPc) covalently linked to two 2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-l-pyrrolidinyloxy (PROXYL) radicals (R2a) have been investigated in terms of the photocontrol of magnetic properties. The steady-state EPR spectrum of R2a indicates that two PROXYL radicals generate a spin-correlated radical pair, where the singlet ground state (S-o') is close to the triplet ground state (T-o'). In time-resolved EPR (TREPR) spectra of R2a, A/E A/E A/E polarizations are initially seen, which then change into E/A E/A E/A polarizations. The initial and later polarizations are reproduced by spin-selective population of the So' and To' states, respectively. Quantitative analyses of TREPR and transient absorption signals show that the initial A/E A/E A/E polarizations are reproduced by spin-selective relaxation from the excited states, where the SiPc moiety is in the excited singlet state, and that the later E/A E/A E/A polarizations originate from the decay from excited multiplet states consisting of two doublet PROXYLs and SiPc in the excited triplet state.