Abstract
Photoinduced intermolecular electron transfer in mixtures of oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)s (OPVns, with n=2¿7, the number of phenyl rings) and N-methylfulleropyrrolidine (MP-C60) is studied in o-dichlorobenzene. Photoinduced absorption (PIA) spectroscopy is used to show that photoexcitation of MP-C60 generates the corresponding triplet state, which is quenched in a one-electron reduction reaction by OPVn for n>2. The electronic transitions of the photogenerated OPVn+. radical cations evolve with conjugation length in a near linear relation with 1/n. Charge transfer in these donor¿acceptor systems for n>2 is in full agreement with the calculated change in free energy for charge separation
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 403-408 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Chemical Physics Letters |
| Volume | 328 |
| Issue number | 4-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2000 |