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© 2020 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.A covalently linked bichromophore, embracing 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethinyl)pentacene (TIPS-pentacene) terminals bridged by a rigid fluorene spacer, generates a relatively high yield (i.e., 65 ± 6%) of the spin-correlated, triplet biexciton upon illumination in toluene. Under the same conditions, the extent of fluorescence quenching relative to the parent TIPS-pentacene approaches 97% and is insensitive to temperature. The biexciton, having overall singlet spin multiplicity, undergoes internal conversion in competition to spin decorrelation. These latter processes occur on the relatively slow time scale of a hundred or so nanoseconds, possibly reflecting the restricted level of electronic communication between the terminals. Spin decorrelation leads to evolution of an independent triplet pair with an overall quantum yield of 0.50 ± 0.06 and a lifetime of 8 ± 2 μs in deaerated toluene. Photoacoustic calorimetry (PAC) indicates three separate enthalpy changes: a very fast step associated with intramolecular singlet exciton fission to form the correlated triplet biexciton, a fast step essentially reflecting spin decorrelation, and a slow step associated with relaxation of the independent triplet pair. Analysis of the PAC data, in conjunction with the transient absorption results, establishes excitation energies for both spin-correlated and independent triplet pairs. Polar solvent enhances both fluorescence quenching and triplet formation at the expense of radiationless decay while temperature effects have been recorded for all important intermediate species.
Author(s): Karlsson JKG, Atahan A, Harriman A, Tkachenko NV, Ward AD, Schaberle FA, Serpa C, Arnaut LG
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Year: 2021
Volume: 125
Issue: 5
Pages: 1184–1197
Print publication date: 11/02/2021
Online publication date: 02/02/2021
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
ISSN (print): 1089-5639
ISSN (electronic): 1520-5215
Publisher: American Chemical Society
URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c09961
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c09961
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