Persistent Electron-Transfer State of a π-Complex of Acridinium Ion Inserted between Porphyrin Rings of Cofacial Bisporphyrins

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Abstract

A free-base cofacial bisporphyrin, H(4)DPOx, forms a pi-complex with acridinium ion (AcH(+)) by pi-pi interaction in benzonitrile (PhCN). Formation of the H(4)DPOx-AcH(+) pi-complex was probed by UV-vis and NMR spectroscopy. The binding constant between AcH(+) and H(4)DPOx is determined as 9.7 x 10(4) M(-)(1). Photoinduced electron transfer (ET) from the H(4)DPOx to the AcH(+) moiety occurred efficiently in the pi-complex to form the ET state (H(4)DPOx(*)(+)-AcH(*)). The ET state is successfully detected by laser flash photolysis. The lifetime of the ET state is 18 mus in PhCN at 298 K, and the quantum yield of the ET state is 90%. The temperature dependence of the ET state lifetime has been examined in the range from 273 to 353 K. The ET state lifetime exhibited a large temperature dependence, and the linear plot of ln(k(BET)T(1/2)) vs T(-)()(1), in accordance with the Marcus equation, affords the ET reorganization energy (0.54 eV). As a result, a remarkably long-lived ET state has been attained at low temperature, and virtually no decay of the ET state was observed at 77 K. Such an extremely long-lived ET state is indeed detected by steady-state UV-vis absorption spectroscopy.

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