title: Charge transfer in sapphyrin-fullerene hybrids employing dendritic ensembles.
abstract: A new approach to creating noncovalent charge transfer ensembles is described. It is based on two components that are linked through anion-receptor interactions. The first component is sapphyrin, a pentapyrrolic expanded porphyrin, which is capable of carboxylate anion recognition and more importantly can act as a photodonor when irradiated in the presence of a suitable electron acceptor. The second component is the electron acceptor and consists of one of two different C(60) fullerene cores functionalized with multiple carboxylate anion groups arranged in a dendritic fashion. Depending on the specific choice of the fullerene carboxylate anion dendrimer employed in ensemble construction, 1:1 or 1:2 complexes are formed when the C(60) cores are titrated with sapphyrin. The resulting noncovalent arrays undergo sapphyrin-to-fullerene electron transfer when irradiated with 387 nm light. This gives rise to charge separated states with lifetimes of ca. 470 and 600 ps in the case of the 1:1 and 1:2 sapphyrin-fullerene ensembles, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Grimm
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Karnas
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brettreich
authors.forename: Kiminori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.forename: Dirk M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Guldi
authors.forename: Tomas
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authors.lastname: Torres
authors.forename: Jonathan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Sessler