Photoswitched Singlet Energy Transfer in a Porphyrin−Spiropyran Dyad
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Abstract
A photochromic nitrospiropyran moiety (Sp) has been covalently linked to a zinc (PZn) and to a free-base (P(H2)) porphyrin. In the resulting dyads (P(Zn)-Sp(c) and P(H2)-Sp(c)), the porphyrin first excited singlet states are unperturbed by the closed form of the attached spiropyran. Excitation of the spiropyran moiety of either dyad in the near-UV region results in ring opening to a merocyanine form (P-Sp(o)) that absorbs at 600 nm. The open form re-closes thermally in 2-methyltetrahydrofuran with a time constant of 20 s, or following irradiation into the 600 nm band. Excitation of the zinc porphyrin moiety in the merocyanine form of the dyad yields 1PZn-Sp(o). The lifetime of the zinc porphyrin excited state is reduced from its usual value of 1.8 ns to 130 ps by singlet-singlet energy transfer to the merocyanine moiety to give PZn-1Sp(o). The quantum yield of energy transfer is 0.93. Quenching is also observed in the free base dyad, where 1P(H2)-Sp(o) and P(H2)-1Sp(o) exchange singlet excitation energy. This photoswitchable quenching phenomenon provides light-activated control of the porphyrin excited states, and consequently control of any subsequent energy or electron-transfer processes that might be initiated by these excited states in more complex molecular photonic or optoelectronic devices.
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