Chemistry Letters, Vol.37, No.5, 544-545, 2008
Photoinduced processes of subphthalocyanine-diazobenzene-fullerene triad as an efficient excited energy transfer system
Photoinduced processes of a newly synthesized subphthalocyanine-diazobenzene-fullerene triad have been studied by the time-resolved spectroscopic techniques. On photo-excitation of subphthalocyanine (SubPc) moiety, the fluorescence quenching of SubPc was observed, suggesting the energy-transfer process from singlet excited energy of the light-harvesting SubPc to C-60 through diazobenzene. This finding is confirmed by the nanosecond transient absorption of the triplet excited state of C-60.