Unique ultrafast energy transfer in a series of phenylene-bridged subporphyrin-porphyrin hybrids

Juwon Oh; Jooyoung Sung; Masaaki Kitano; Yasuhide Inokuma; Atsuhiro Osuka; Dongho Kim

doi:10.1039/c4cc04468a

Unique ultrafast energy transfer in a series of phenylene-bridged subporphyrin-porphyrin hybrids

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Sep 18;50(72):10424-6. doi: 10.1039/c4cc04468a.

Authors

Juwon Oh¹, Jooyoung Sung, Masaaki Kitano, Yasuhide Inokuma, Atsuhiro Osuka, Dongho Kim

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional Electronic System, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Korea. dongho@yonsei.ac.kr.

PMID: 25061636
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc04468a

Abstract

A series of phenylene-bridged subporphyrin-Zn(II) porphyrin (SubP-ZnP) hybrid systems undergo extraordinarily fast excitation energy transfer (EET) processes from the SubP to the ZnP, aided by conjugative electronic elongation of the SubP to the phenylene-bridge.