Abstract
The authors have carried out an extensive photophysical analysis of a tetraarylporphine linked through a single amide bridge to either methyl-p-benzoquinone (PAQ) or the corresponding hydroquinone (PAQH/sub 2/) in benzonitrile as the solvent. The photophysical properties of PAQH/sub 2/ are closely similar to those of nonlinked tetraarylporphine species, while for PAQ significant lifetime quenching of both the lowest excited singlet and triplet states is observed. Picosecond transient absorption spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime measurements were used top show that quenching of the excited singlet state of PAQ is due to intramolecular electron transfer to the singlet radical ion pair /sup 1/(P/sup .+/AQ/sup .-/) with the rate constant of 4.1 (+-0.3) x 10/sup 8/ s/sup -1/. /sup 1/(P/sup .+/AQ/sup .-/) subsequently decays to the ground state by reverse electron transfer with a rate constant of 1.6 (+- 0.2) x 10/sup 8/ s/sup -1/. This reaction has ..delta..G/sup 0/ approx. = -1.4 eV and is predicted by Marcus theory. Nanosecond flash photolysis studies show that the lowest triplet state of PAQ is also quenched, most likely by electron transfer to the triplet radical ion pair /sup 3/(P/sup .+/ AQ/sup .-/, with a rate constant of 4.6 (+-0.2) x 10/sup 4/ s/sup -1/. Theymore » suggest that /sup 3/(P/sup .+/AQ/sup .-/), which then decays rapidly to the ground state.« less
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