title: Energy transfer in zinc porphyrin-phthalocyanine heterotrimer and heterononamer studied by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET).
abstract: Two or eight zinc triphenyl porphyrins were conjugated with Zn-phthalocyanine or H2-phthalocyanine to form ZnPc-(ZnTPP)2, ZnPc-(ZnTPP)8, H2Pc-(ZnTPP)2 and H2Pc-(ZnTPP)8. Energy transfers from the porphyrin moiety to phthalocyanine part were quantitatively studied with the modality of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). By measuring the fluorescence increment from the phthalocyanine moiety and the decrease from porphyrin part under selective excitation at the B band of the porphyrin part in those conjugated compounds and their equimolar mixture of compositions, energy transfer efficiencies were estimated to be 90% for H2Pc-(ZnTPP)8 and ZnPc-(ZnTPP)8, and 60%, 30% for ZnPc-(ZnTPP)2 and H2Pc-(ZnTPP)2, respectively.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Durmuş
authors: J Y
authors: JY
authors: Chen
authors: Z X
authors: ZX
authors: Zhao
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Nyokong
mesh_terms: D004735:Energy Transfer; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer / Q000379:methods*; D006571:Heterocyclic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D007211:Indoles / Q000737:chemistry*; D008665:Metalloporphyrins / Q000737:chemistry; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000737:chemistry*; D015032:Zinc / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D006571:Heterocyclic Compounds; D007211:Indoles; D008665:Metalloporphyrins; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D011166:Porphyrins; C474512:zinc-tetrakis(p-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin; C017802:zinc hematoporphyrin; C063072:zinc(II) phthalocyanine trisulfonic acid; D015032:Zinc