Photoinduced electron transfer in dyads and triads with d6 metal complexes and anthraquinone
Photoinduzierter Elektronentransfer in Dyaden und Triaden mit d6 Metallkomplexen und Antrachinon
von Jihane Hankache
Datum der mündl. Prüfung:2012-06-21
Erschienen:2012-07-11
Betreuer:Prof. Dr. Oliver Wenger
Gutachter:Prof. Dr. Franc Meyer
Gutachter:Prof. Dr. Dietmar Stalke
Gutachter:Prof. Dr. Jörg Schroeder
Dateien
Name:hankache.pdf
Size:8.26Mb
Format:PDF
Zusammenfassung
Englisch
Over the past years, designing molecular systems that mimic natural processes has become the center of much research in the field of chemistry. Many of these artificial systems are synthesized in order to study photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer. These models are usually consisting of a photosensitizer, an electron acceptor, and/or an electron donor, and are considered attractive candidates for the conversion and storage of solar energy. The molecular dyads investigated in this thesis are comprised of a d6 metal diimine complex acting as photosensitizer and an anthraquinone as electron acceptor. In addition to the d6 metal photosensitizer and the anthraquinone acceptor, a tertiary amine has been used as an electron donor in the triads. Photoexcitation of these systems in presence of a strong hydrogen-bond donor strongly influences the thermodynamics and kinetics of the photoinduced electron transfer reaction. In fact, hydrogen-bonding between protic solvent and reduced anthraquinone has a great impact on the excited state deactivation of the dyads by electron transfer from ruthenium to anthraquinone. In the triads, this hydrogen-bonding leads to a significant increase of the lifetime of the charge-separated state containing an oxidized tertiary amine and reduced anthraquinone. This long-lived charge-separated state is interesting in terms of storing light energy in chemical bonds. In both the dyads and triads, the overall photoinduced reaction in presence of protic solvent may be regarded as a variant of stepwise proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) in which proton density is transferred from the hydrogen-bond donor solvent to photoreduced anthraquinone.
Keywords: Photochemistry; electron transfer; hydrogen bonding; transient absorption; ruthenium(II); osmium(II); iridium(III); anthraquinone
Weitere Sprachen
In den letzten Jahren hat man der
künstlichen Photosynthese insbesondere im Bereich der Chemie viel
Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Vor allem auf der Synthese molekularer
Strukturen, welche die natürlichen Prozesse nachempfinden, lag ein
wichtiger Fokus. Viele dieser künstlichen Systeme wurden zum
Studium des lichtinduzierten intramolekularen Elektronentransfers
herangezogen. Geignete Moleküle bestehen normalerweise aus einem
Photosensibilisator, einem Elektronen
Schlagwörter: Elektronentransfer; Wasserstoffbrückenbindung; transiente Absorption; Ruthenium(II); Osmium(II); Iridium(III); Anthrachinon