Engineering tuneable light-harvesting systems with oligothiophene donors and mono- or bis-bodipy acceptors

J Org Chem. 2008 Feb 15;73(4):1563-6. doi: 10.1021/jo702066v. Epub 2008 Jan 23.

Abstract

Oligothiophene-Bodipy-based donor-acceptor systems for light harvesting have been synthesized and characterized. Absorption, excitation, and emission spectra indicate a tuneable and efficient resonance energy transfer from quaterthiophene as donor to mono- and bis-Bodipy as acceptors. This shows that engineering tuneable light harvesting systems is possible based on the combination of oligothiophenes with one or two Bodipy(s).