Electron-transfer dyads suitable for novel self-assembled light-harvesting
antenna/electron-transfer devices*
Alfred R. Holzwarth**, Martin Katterle, Marc G. Müller, Ying-Zong
Ma, and Valentin Prokhorenko
Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Stiftstraße
34-36, 45470 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
Abstract: The synthesis and photophysical and photochemical
characterization of four novel bacterio-chlorin-fullerene dyads with
fullerene C60 coupled at various positions and by various bridges to
the chlorin ring are described. All dyads undergo rapid charge separation
in the sub-picosecond to picosecond time range as characterized by time-resolved
fluorescence and transient absorption spectroscopy.
*Lecture presented at the XVIIIth IUPAC Symposium on
Photochemistry, Dresden, German , 22-27 July 2000.Other presentations
are published in this issue, pp.395-548.
**Corresponding author
