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Excitation-energy migration in self-assembled cyclic zinc(II)-porphyrin arrays: A close mimicry of a natural light-harvesting system

  • In Wook Hwang
  • , Mira Park
  • , Tae Kyu Ahn
  • , Zin Seok Yoon
  • , Dah Mee Ko
  • , Dongho Kim
  • , Fuyuki Ito
  • , Yukihide Ishibashi
  • , Sazzadur R. Khan
  • , Yutaka Nagasawa
  • , Hiroshi Miyasaka
  • , Chusaku Ikeda
  • , Ryoichi Takahashi
  • , Kazuya Ogawa
  • , Akiharu Satake
  • , Yoshiaki Kobuke

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Abstract

The excitation-energy-hopping (EEH) times within two-dimensional cyclic zinc(II)-porphyrin arrays 5 and 6, which were prepared by intermolecular coordination and ring-closing metathesis reaction of olefins, were deduced by modeling the EEH process based on the anisotropy depolarization as well as the exciton-exciton annihilation dynamics. Assuming the number of energy-hopping sites N=5 and 6, the two different experimental observables, that is, anisotropy depolarization and exciton-excition annihilation times, consistently give the EEH times of 8.0 ±0.5 and 5.3±0.6ps through the 1,3-phenylene linkages of 5 and 6, respectively. Accordingly, the self-assembled cyclic porphyrin arrays have proven to be well-defined two-dimensional models for natural light-harvesting complexes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3753-3761
Number of pages9
JournalChemistry - A European Journal
Volume11
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Jun 2005
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Energy transfer
  • Femtosecond transient absorption
  • Fluorescence spectroscopy
  • Polarization anisotropy
  • Porphyrinoias

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