Issue 25, 2018

Rapid photoinduced charge injection into covalent polyoxometalate–bodipy conjugates

Abstract

Controlled design of photoactive hybrids would provide highly active materials for solar energy conversion and photo(electro) catalysis. We describe the kinetics of photoinduced electron transfer in a series of photoactive hybrids based on Keggin-type polyoxometalates (POMs) covalently grafted to bodipy photosensitizers. We show how the electronic properties and corresponding dynamics of these hybrids can be readily tuned by varying the POM metal ion, the anchoring functionalization and the spacer length. Ultrafast visible and IR transient absorption spectroscopy, supported by spectroelectrochemical measurements, reveals that photoinduced electron transfer from the bodipy chromophore to the organosilyl POM derivative occurs as rapidly as τ = 54 ps to generate a long-lived (τ = 4.8 ns) charge-separated (CS) state, making this system appropriate for applications in photoelectrochemical devices.

Graphical abstract: Rapid photoinduced charge injection into covalent polyoxometalate–bodipy conjugates

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
22 Feb 2018
Accepted
29 May 2018
First published
01 Jun 2018
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 5578-5584

Rapid photoinduced charge injection into covalent polyoxometalate–bodipy conjugates

F. A. Black, A. Jacquart, G. Toupalas, S. Alves, A. Proust, I. P. Clark, E. A. Gibson and G. Izzet, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 5578 DOI: 10.1039/C8SC00862K

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