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Impact of electronic asymmetry on photoexcited triplet-state spin distributions in conjugated porphyrin oligomers probed via EPR spectroscopy

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Angiolillo, PJ; Uyeda, HT; Duncan, TV; Therien, MJ
Published in: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
August 12, 2004

The photophysics of triplet excitons in a series of electronically asymmetric "push-pull" π-conjugated meso-to-meso ethyne-bridged (porphinato)metal oligomers, along with electronically symmetric analogues, were studied by X-band electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy under continuous-wave (CW) optical pumping conditions in the 4-100 K temperature range. In all of the systems studied, the spatial extent of the triplet wave function, as inferred from the |D| zero-field splitting (ZFS) parameter, never exceeds the dimensions of a single porphyryl moiety and its meso-pendant ethynyl groups. The |D| values determined for an oligomeric series of these electronically asymmetric species that span one through four porphyryl units are respectively 0.0301, 0.0303, 0.0300, and 0.0301 cm -1, indicating a common triplet wave function spatial delocalization of approximately 0.4-0.45 nm. Electron spin-spin and spin-lattice relaxation times were determined over the 4-30 K temperature range using progressive microwave power saturation for benchmark, structurally related electronically symmetric conjugated porphyrin species which possessed either terminal electron-rich [4-dimethylammo(phenyl)] ethynyl or electron-poor [4-nitro(phenyl)]ethynyl substituents. The spin-lattice relaxation times obtained from these experiments reveal no significant scaling of this parameter with conjugation length, consistent with a S = 1 spin system that is confined to a single monomeric porphyrin unit and its pendent ethynyl substituents. These results are discussed within the global context of a broader body of experiments that have probed the extent of triplet exciton delocalization within a number of families of highly π-conjugated organic oligomers and polymers.

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Journal of Physical Chemistry B

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1520-6106

Publication Date

August 12, 2004

Volume

108

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32

Start / End Page

11893 / 11903

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  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 40 Engineering
  • 34 Chemical sciences
  • 09 Engineering
  • 03 Chemical Sciences
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Angiolillo, P. J., Uyeda, H. T., Duncan, T. V., & Therien, M. J. (2004). Impact of electronic asymmetry on photoexcited triplet-state spin distributions in conjugated porphyrin oligomers probed via EPR spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(32), 11893–11903. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp040032z
Angiolillo, P. J., H. T. Uyeda, T. V. Duncan, and M. J. Therien. “Impact of electronic asymmetry on photoexcited triplet-state spin distributions in conjugated porphyrin oligomers probed via EPR spectroscopy.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108, no. 32 (August 12, 2004): 11893–903. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp040032z.
Angiolillo PJ, Uyeda HT, Duncan TV, Therien MJ. Impact of electronic asymmetry on photoexcited triplet-state spin distributions in conjugated porphyrin oligomers probed via EPR spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2004 Aug 12;108(32):11893–903.
Angiolillo, P. J., et al. “Impact of electronic asymmetry on photoexcited triplet-state spin distributions in conjugated porphyrin oligomers probed via EPR spectroscopy.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 32, Aug. 2004, pp. 11893–903. Scopus, doi:10.1021/jp040032z.
Angiolillo PJ, Uyeda HT, Duncan TV, Therien MJ. Impact of electronic asymmetry on photoexcited triplet-state spin distributions in conjugated porphyrin oligomers probed via EPR spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2004 Aug 12;108(32):11893–11903.
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Published In

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

DOI

ISSN

1520-6106

Publication Date

August 12, 2004

Volume

108

Issue

32

Start / End Page

11893 / 11903

Related Subject Headings

  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 40 Engineering
  • 34 Chemical sciences
  • 09 Engineering
  • 03 Chemical Sciences
  • 02 Physical Sciences