Highly efficient energy transfer in the light harvesting system composed of three kinds of boron-dipyrromethene derivatives

Xiaolin Zhang; Yi Xiao; Xuhong Qian

doi:10.1021/ol702381j

Highly efficient energy transfer in the light harvesting system composed of three kinds of boron-dipyrromethene derivatives

Org Lett. 2008 Jan 3;10(1):29-32. doi: 10.1021/ol702381j. Epub 2007 Dec 11.

Authors

Xiaolin Zhang¹, Yi Xiao, Xuhong Qian

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, China.

PMID: 18069840
DOI: 10.1021/ol702381j

Abstract

A light-harvesting system containing three kinds of BODIPY fluorophores was synthesized. It exhibited very strong absorption in the region from 300 to 700 nm, and the energy transfer within it was highly efficient.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Absorption
Boron / chemistry*
Energy Transfer*
Light*
Models, Molecular
Molecular Structure
Porphobilinogen / analogs & derivatives*
Porphobilinogen / chemical synthesis
Porphobilinogen / chemistry
Solar Energy

Substances

dipyrromethene
Porphobilinogen
Boron