Abstract
A series of C60 fullerene derivatives containing a nitroxide group has been photoexcited by short LASER pulses in the microwave cavity of a cw-EPR spectrometer. Strongly spin polarized signals have been observed, in glassy matrix as well as in liquid solution, for both the ground electronic state and the excited quartet state. In the quartet state the excitation resides in the fullerene part and the molecule constitutes a triplet-radical pair with the partner covalently linked. The absorptive or emissive character of the transitions is explained in terms of the mechanism of radicaltriplet interaction producing spin polarization. Opposite initial sign and polarization patterns are observed for molecules with different spacer between nitroxide and fullerene. The time evolution of the relevant sublevel populations is fitted by a kinetic model taking into account quartet decay constants, quartet and doublet spin-lattice relaxation rates and branching ratios.
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