Photophysics of Squaraine Dyes: Role of Charge-Transfer in Singlet Oxygen Production and Removal
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Abstract
The unique optical properties of squaraines render these molecules useful for applications that range from xerography to photodynamic therapy. In this regard, squaraines derived from the condensation of nitrogen-based heterocycles and squaric acid have many promising attributes. Key solution-phase photophysical properties of six such squaraines have been characterized in this study. One feature of these molecules is a pronounced absorption band in the region approximately 600-720 nm that has significant spectral overlap with the fluorescence band (i.e., the Stokes shift is small). As such, effects of emission/reabsorption yield unique excitation wavelength dependent phenomena that are manifested in quantum yields of both fluorescence and sensitized singlet oxygen production. Comparatively small squaraine-sensitized yields of singlet oxygen production and, independently, large rate constants for squaraine-induced deactivation of singlet oxygen are consistent with a model in which there is appreciable intra- and intermolecular charge-transfer in the squaraine and squaraine-oxygen encounter complex, respectively. The results reported herein should be useful in the further development of these compounds for a range of oxygen-dependent applications.
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