Uniquely shaped double-decker buckyferrocenes--distinct electron donor-acceptor interactions.
Uniquely shaped double-decker buckyferrocenes--distinct electron donor-acceptor interactions.
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DOI:
10.1021/ja8013902
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发表时间:
2008-11
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15
通讯作者:
R. Marczak;Mateusz Wielopolski;S. Gayathri;D. Guldi;Y. Matsuo;K. Matsuo;Kazukuni Tahara;E. Nakamura
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R. Marczak;Mateusz Wielopolski;S. Gayathri;D. Guldi;Y. Matsuo;K. Matsuo;Kazukuni Tahara;E. Nakamura
Quantum chemical calculations and various photophysical techniques, ranging from steady-state absorption and steady-state as well as time-resolved fluorescence to femtosecond pump-probe experiments, were employed to examine ground- and excited-state interactions in a set of novel double-decker buckyferrocenes (i.e., Fe(2)(C(60)Me(10))Cp(2)): C(2v) and D(5d) isomers. When compared to the individual reference systems, the intimate fullerene/ferrocene contacts reflect appreciable ground-state interactions, namely, substantial redistribution of charge density between the two electron donors (i.e., ferrocenes) and the electron acceptor (i.e., fullerene). Furthermore, an intervalence charge-transfer transition (i.e., ferrocene-ferrocenium interaction) was established, but only in the C(2v) isomer. The first insight into the electron donor-acceptor interactions came from inspecting the fullerene-centered fluorescence. Relative to the reference compounds that contain no ferrocene, which exhibit quantum yields of up to 0.1, and knowing that the fluorescence of the investigated double-decker type conjugates is quenched to 10(-3), transient absorption measurements prove unequivocally the rapid formation of the radical ion-pair states as the dominant products of excited-state deactivation in the double-decker buckyferrocenes. Despite these products having much higher lying radical ion-pair states relative to the corresponding single-decker buckyferrocene, their lifetimes, which vary between 12 and 39 ps, are slightly shorter.