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  • Through-Space Ultrafast Pho...
    Ortiz, Michael; Cho, Sung; Niklas, Jens; Kim, Seonah; Poluektov, Oleg G; Zhang, Wei; Rumbles, Garry; Park, Jaehong

    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 03/2017, Volume: 139, Issue: 12
    Journal Article

    Ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer (PIET) dynamics of a C70-encapsulated bisporphyrin covalent organic polyhedron hybrid (C70@COP-5) is studied in a nonpolar toluene medium with fluorescence and transient absorption spectroscopies. This structurally rigid donor (D)–acceptor (A) molecular hybrid offers a new platform featuring conformationally predetermined cofacial D–A orientation with a fixed edge-to-edge separation, R EE (2.8 Å), without the aid of covalent bonds. Sub-picosecond PIET (τET ≤ 0.4 ps) and very slow charge recombination (τCR ≈ 600 ps) dynamics are observed. The origin of these dynamics is discussed in terms of enhanced D–A coupling (V = 675 cm–1) and extremely small reorganization energy (λ ≈ 0.18 eV), induced by the intrinsic structural rigidity of the C70@COP-5 complex.