title: Scandium ion-promoted photoinduced electron-transfer oxidation of fullerenes and derivatives by p-chloranil and p-benzoquinone.
abstract: In the presence of scandium triflate, an efficient photoinduced electron transfer from the triplet excited state of C(60) to p-chloranil occurs to produce C(60) radical cation which has a diagnostic NIR (near-infrared) absorption band at 980 nm, whereas no photoinduced electron transfer occurs from the triplet excited state of C(60) (3C(60)) to p-chloranil in the absence of scandium ion in benzonitrile. The electron-transfer rate obeys pseudo-first-order kinetics and the pseudo-first-order rate constant increases linearly with increasing p-chloranil concentration. The observed second-order rate constant of electron transfer (k(et)) increases linearly with increasing scandium ion concentration. In contrast to the case of the C(60)/p-chloranil/Sc(3+) system, the k(et) value for electron transfer from 3C(60) to p-benzoquinone increases with an increase in Sc(3+) concentration ([Sc(3+)]) to exhibit a first-order dependence on [Sc(3+)], changing to a second-order dependence at the high concentrations. Such a mixture of first-order and second-order dependence on [Sc(3+)] is also observed for a Sc(3+)-promoted electron transfer from CoTPP (TPP(2-) = tetraphenylporphyrin dianion) to p-benzoquinone. This is ascribed to formation of 1:1 and 1:2 complexes between the generated semiquinone radical anion and Sc(3+) at the low and high concentrations of Sc(3+), respectively. The transient absorption spectra of the radical cations of various fullerene derivatives were detected by laser flash photolysis of the fullerene/p-chloranil/Sc(3+) systems. The ESR spectra of the fullerene radical cations were also detected in frozen PhCN at 193 K under photoirradiation of the fullerene/p-chloranil/Sc(3+) systems. The Sc(3+)-promoted electron-transfer rate constants were determined for photoinduced electron transfer from the triplet excited states of C(60), C(70), and their derivatives to p-chloranil and the values are compared with the HOMO (highest occupied molecular orbital) levels of the fullerenes and their derivatives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, CREST, Japan. fukuzumi@ap.chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
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