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Production of an ultra-long-lived charge-separated state in a zinc chlorin-C60 dyad by one-step photoinduced electron transfer

  • Kei Ohkubo
  • , Hiroaki Kotani
  • , Jianguo Shao
  • , Zhongping Ou
  • , Karl M. Kadish
  • , Guolin Li
  • , Ravindra K. Pandey
  • , Mamoru Fujitsuka
  • , Osamu Ito
  • , Hiroshi Imahori
  • , Shunichi Fukuzumi
  • The University of Osaka
  • University of Houston
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  • Tohoku University
  • Kyoto University

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Abstract

Long live the state! Photoexcitation of a zinc chlorin-fullerene dyad with a short linkage results in the formation of the ultra-long-lived charge-separated (CS) state by a one-step photoinduced electron transfer without loss of energy, which is inevitable for charge separation by multistep electron-transfer processes. The lifetime of the charge-separated state was 120 s in frozen PhCN at -150°C (see picture).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)853-856
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume43
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 6 2004

Keywords

  • Charge separation
  • Chlorin
  • Electron transfer
  • Fullerenes
  • Photosynthesis

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