Abstract
Abstract Pyropheophorbides, chlorophyll-a derivatives, were quadruply esterified at the 17-propionate residue with a tetraol to give the covalently-linked tetramers. The synthetic tetramers were mixed with a C70 fullerene derivative for utilization as the active layer in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. Their photovoltaic performances were comparable to those of the corresponding monomeric pigments. The similar power conversion efficiencies would be ascribable to the increase of carrier mobility in the tetramers and the partial suppression of photoexcited state of the chlorin π-systems by intramolecular quenching. Photophysical properties of synthetic covalently-linked mesopyropheophorbide-a dimer, trimer, and tetramer as well as its monomer in a solution supported the intramolecular interaction of chlorin moieties to quench their singlet excited states, which was especially observed in the trimer and tetramer.
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