Energy transfer rates and pathways of single donor chromophores in a multichromophoric dendrimer built around a central acceptor core

Rémi Métivier; Florian Kulzer; Tanja Weil; Klaus Müllen; Thomas Basché

doi:10.1021/ja047996o

Energy transfer rates and pathways of single donor chromophores in a multichromophoric dendrimer built around a central acceptor core

J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Nov 10;126(44):14364-5. doi: 10.1021/ja047996o.

Authors

Rémi Métivier¹, Florian Kulzer, Tanja Weil, Klaus Müllen, Thomas Basché

Affiliation

¹ Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Welderweg 11, 55099 Mainz, Germany.

PMID: 15521750
DOI: 10.1021/ja047996o

Abstract

An artificial light-harvesting dendrimer showing highly efficient electronic excitation energy transfer from four peripheral donors to one central acceptor has been investigated by single-molecule spectroscopy at low temperatures. Confocal imaging in combination with frequency selective excitation spectroscopy gives direct access to energy transfer rates of individual donors and allows the determination of energy transfer pathways within a single multichromophoric aggregate.