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

Chemistry. 2005 Jun 6;11(12):3753-61. doi: 10.1002/chem.200500069.

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 +/- 0.6 ps 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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Absorption
  • Alkenes / chemistry
  • Cyclization
  • Energy Transfer*
  • Fluorescence Polarization
  • Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes / chemistry*
  • Metalloporphyrins / chemistry*
  • Metalloporphyrins / radiation effects*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Spectrometry, Fluorescence
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Alkenes
  • Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes
  • Metalloporphyrins
  • zinc hematoporphyrin