title: Artificial photosynthetic systems: assemblies of slipped cofacial porphyrins and phthalocyanines showing strong electronic coupling.
abstract: This paper reviews selected types of structurally well defined assemblies of porphyrins and phthalocyanines with strong electronic coupling. Face-to-face, head-to-tail, slipped cofacial, and non-parallel dimeric motifs constructed by covalent and non-covalent bonds are compared in the earlier sections. Their molecular orientation, electronic overlap, and absorption and fluorescence properties are discussed with a view towards the development of artificial photosynthetic systems and molecular electronics. Complementary coordination dimers are fully satisfactory in terms of structural stability, orientation factor, pi-electronic overlap, and zero fluorescence quenching. In later sections, several polymeric and macrocyclic porphyrin assemblies constructed by a combination of covalent bonds and complementary coordination bonds are discussed from the viewpoint of light-harvesting antenna functions.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama 8916-5, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan. satake@ms.nasit.jp kobuke@ms.naist.jp
authors.forename: Akiharu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Satake
authors.forename: Yoshiaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobuke