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Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2003 Mar;2(3):177-86. doi: 10.1039/b210261g.

Energy transfer within perylene-terrylene dendrimers evidenced by polychromatic transient absorption measurements.

Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology

Sven Jordens, Gino De Belder, Marc Lor, Gerd Schweitzer, Mark Van der Auweraer, Tanja Weil, Erik Reuther, Klaus Müllen, Frans C De Schryver

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 F, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium.

PMID: 12713215 DOI: 10.1039/b210261g

Abstract

The time dependent spectral properties of a first and a second generation dendrimer with peryleneimide chromophores at the rim and a terrylenediimide chromophore in the core were investigated by time resolved polychromatic transient absorption measurements. The obtained results of the dendritic structures were compared with those of three model compounds. In the perylene-terrylene dendrimers a very fast energy transfer process was observed. Besides energy transfer singlet-singlet annihilation could be observed. It could be concluded that competition between the rates of energy transfer and of singlet-singlet annihilation is dependent on the dendrimer generation.

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