Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of the American Chemical Society
5 years ago

Radical-Enhanced Intersystem Crossing in New Bodipy Derivatives and Application for Efficient Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion

Radical-Enhanced Intersystem Crossing in New Bodipy Derivatives and Application for Efficient Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion
Yan Liu, Liang Xu, Zhijia Wang, Ahmet Karatay, Jianzhang Zhao, Antonio Barbon, Antonio Toffoletti, Mustafa Hayvali, Yonglin An, Halime Gul Yaglioglu, Elif Akhüseyin Yildiz
A long-lived triplet excited state of the well-known fluorophore boron dipyrromethene (Bodipy) was observed for the first time via efficient radical-enhanced intersystem crossing (EISC). The triplet state has been obtained in two dyads in which the Bodipy unit is linked to a nitroxide radical, 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxyl (TEMPO), with two different length spacers. The photophysical properties were studied with steady-state and time-resolved transient optical spectroscopies and electron spin resonance (cw-ESR and TR-ESR). The fluorescence of Bodipy units is significantly quenched in the dyads, and the spin-polarized TEMPO signals were observed with TR-ESR, generated by a radical triplet pair mechanism. Efficient EISC (ΦT = 80%) was observed for the dyad with a shorter linker, and the triplet state lifetime of the Bodipy chromophore is exceptionally long (62 μs). The EISC takes 250 ps. Poor ISC was observed for the dyad with a longer linker. The efficient ISC and long-lived triplet excited state in this flexible system are in stark contrast to the previously studied rigid EISC systems. The EISC effect was employed for the first time to perform triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA) upconversion (quantum yield ΦUC = 6.7%).

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b02063

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b02063

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