Photoinduced Charge Separation in Donor-Linked Fullerenes.

Accession number;01A0228967
Title;Photoinduced Charge Separation in Donor-Linked Fullerenes.
Author; IMAHORI HIROSHI (Osaka Univ., Grad. Sch.) TAMAKI KOICHI (Inst. of Sci. and Ind. Res., Osaka Univ.) YAMADA HIROKO (Osaka Univ., Grad. Sch.) SAKATA YOSHITERU (Inst. of Sci. and Ind. Res., Osaka Univ.) FUKUZUMI SHUN'ICHI (Osaka Univ., Grad. Sch.)
Journal Title;Abstracts. Symposium on Biofunctional Chemistry
Journal Code:L0836A
ISSN:
VOL.15th;NO.;PAGE.52-53(2000)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.3, REF.7
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;Reorganization energies of porphyrin-C60 linked systems have been determined by analyzing the charge-transfer emission in benzene. The reorganization energies are estimated as 0.1-0.2 eV, which are comparable to the smallest ones in the photosynthetic reaction center. A light harvesting model, boron dipyrrin, has been combined with a reaction center model, ferrocene-porphyrin-fullerene triad, to construct integrated artificial photosynthetic assemblies on a gold electrode using mixed monolayers of the respective self-assembled unit. The architecture on the gold electrode has established a cascade of photoinduced energy transfer and multistep electron transfer, leading to the production of photocurrent as an output with the highest quantum yield (50.+-.8%) ever reported for photocurrent generation at monolayer-modified metal electrodes using donor-acceptor linked molecules. (author abst.)