Photoinduced Charge-Transfer State of 4-Carbazolyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)benzoic Acid: Photophysical Property and Application to Reduction of Carbon−Halogen Bonds as a Sensitizer

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 2006-2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryosuke Matsubara ◽  
Toshiyuki Shimada ◽  
Yasuhiro Kobori ◽  
Tatsushi Yabuta ◽  
Toshiyuki Osakai ◽  
...  
2003 ◽  
Vol 07 (10) ◽  
pp. 651-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz-Peter Montforts ◽  
Ivan Vlassiouk ◽  
Sergei Smirnov ◽  
Michael Wedel

Bislactone linked porphyrin-fullerene dyads show promising photophysical properties for mimicking photosynthesis. Optical and transient displacement current investigations of the dyads demonstrate efficient intramolecular electron transfer from porphyrin to fullerene with the lifetime of the charge transfer state on the order of a few nanoseconds in low polarity solvents. Solvent polarity effect on the yield of charge separation and conformations in the charge transfer state are investigated in detail. The facile synthesis could readily be applied to constructing extended compounds with high yields of photoinduced charge separation.


1996 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 1697-1713 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Changenet ◽  
P Plaza ◽  
MM Martin ◽  
YH Meyer ◽  
W Rettig

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengqing Tong ◽  
Margaret S. Cheung ◽  
Barry D. Dunietz ◽  
Eitan Geva ◽  
Xiang Sun

The nonequilibrium Fermi’s golden rule (NE-FGR) describes the time-dependent rate coefficient for electronic transitions, when the nuclear degrees of freedom start out in a <i>nonequilibrium</i> state. In this letter, the linearized semiclassical (LSC) approximation of the NE-FGR is used to calculate the photoinduced charge transfer rates in the carotenoid-porphyrin-C<sub>60</sub> molecular triad dissolved in explicit tetrahydrofuran. The initial nonequilibrium state corresponds to impulsive photoexcitation from the equilibrated ground-state to the ππ* state, and the porphyrin-to-C<sub>60</sub> and the carotenoid-to-C<sub>60</sub> charge transfer rates are calculated. Our results show that accounting for the nonequilibrium nature of the initial state significantly enhances the transition rate of the porphyrin-to-C<sub>60</sub> CT process. We also derive the instantaneous Marcus theory (IMT) from LSC NE-FGR, which casts the CT rate coefficients in terms of a Marcus-like expression, with explicitly time-dependent reorganization energy and reaction free energy. IMT is found to reproduce the CT rates in the system under consideration remarkably well.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Goldzak ◽  
Alexandra R. McIsaac ◽  
Troy Van Voorhis

AbstractColloidal CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) have shown promise in applications ranging from LED displays to medical imaging. Their unique photophysics depend sensitively on the presence or absence of surface defects. Using simulations, we show that CdSe NCs are inherently defective; even for stoichiometric NCs with perfect ligand passivation and no vacancies or defects, we still observe that the low energy spectrum is dominated by dark, surface-associated excitations, which are more numerous in larger NCs. Surface structure analysis shows that the majority of these states involve holes that are localized on two-coordinate Se atoms. As chalcogenide atoms are not passivated by any Lewis base ligand, varying the ligand should not dramatically change the number of dark states, which we confirm by simulating three passivation schemes. Our results have significant implications for understanding CdSe NC photophysics, and suggest that photochemistry and short-range photoinduced charge transfer should be much more facile than previously anticipated.


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