RESEARCH ARTICLE

Synthesis and properties of tetrathiafulvalene-porphyrin assemblies

  • Meijiang LI 1 ,
  • Rui HUANG 2 ,
  • Changzhi WU 2 ,
  • Hujin ZUO 2 ,
  • Guoqiao LAI 1 ,
  • Yongjia SHEN , 2
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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and Material Technology of Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310012, China
  • 2. Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China

Received date: 11 Jul 2011

Accepted date: 26 Sep 2011

Published date: 05 Dec 2011

Copyright

2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Two donor-σ-acceptor molecular systems incorporating tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) and tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) units, TTF-TPP (dyad 1) and TTF-TPP-TTF (triad 2), were synthesized. Both dyad 1 and triad 2 and their synthetic intermediates have been characterized by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) and mass spectrography (MS). Their ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) and cyclic voltammetry (CV) showed negligible intramolecular charge transfer interaction in their ground states. Their fluorescence intensity was strongly quenched compared with TPP, which implied the photoinduced electron transfer occurred from the TTF unit to the TPP unit in the excited state. On the other hand, their fluorescence intensity could be modulated by sequential oxidation of the TTF unit using chemical methods, which exhibited their potential application in fluorescence molecular switch.

Cite this article

Meijiang LI , Rui HUANG , Changzhi WU , Hujin ZUO , Guoqiao LAI , Yongjia SHEN . Synthesis and properties of tetrathiafulvalene-porphyrin assemblies[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2011 , 5(4) : 422 -428 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-011-1124-x

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21076078 and 20676036).
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