title: Optical switching and antenna effect of dendrimers with an anthracene core.
abstract: Dendrimers 6G(i) (i=1-4) consisting of an anthracene core and Fréchet dendrons which are attached via a CH(2)OCH(2) chain in the 9-position undergo quantitative and completely reversible intramolecular [4pi+4pi] cycloaddition. The process can be monitored by absorption and fluorescence measurements. The Fréchet dendrons act as an energy funnel that collects and focuses the photon energy but does not change the photostationary states, which for both directions are completely on the product side when the separate chromophores are selectively irradiated. The quantum yields of anthracene fluorescence and of singlet energy transfer from the dendrons to the core were studied as a function of dendrimer generation.
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. drcao@scut.edu.cn
authors.forename: Derong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dobis
authors.forename: Chunmei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hillmann
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meier