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[10]CPP‐Based Inclusion Complexes of Charged Fulleropyrrolidines. Effect of the Charge Location on the Photoinduced Electron Transfer
Author(s) -
Stasyuk Olga A.,
Stasyuk Anton J.,
Solà Miquel,
Voityuk Alexander A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202005516
Subject(s) - hypsochromic shift , excited state , electron acceptor , electron donor , nanosecond , picosecond , photochemistry , time dependent density functional theory , chemistry , acceptor , charge (physics) , electron transfer , photoinduced electron transfer , density functional theory , materials science , atomic physics , computational chemistry , fluorescence , physics , laser , quantum mechanics , optics , condensed matter physics , catalysis , biochemistry
A number of non‐covalently bound donor‐acceptor dyads, consisting of C 60 as the electron acceptor and cycloparaphenylene (CPP) as the electron donor, have been reported. A hypsochromic shift of the charge transfer (CT) band in polar medium has been found in [10]CPP⊃Li + @C 60 . To explore this anomalous effect, we study inclusion complexes [10]CPP⊃Li + @C 60 ‐MP , [10]CPP⊃C 60 ‐MPH + , and [10]CPP⊃C 60 ‐PPyMe + formed by fulleropyrrolidine derivatives and [10]CPP using the DFT/TDDFT approach. We show that the introduction of a positively charged fragment into fullerene stabilizes CT states that become the lowest‐lying excited states. These charge‐separated states can be generated by the decay of locally excited states on a nanosecond to picosecond time scale. The distance of the charged fragment to the center of the fullerenic cage and its accessibility to the solvent determine the strength of the hypsochromic shift.