Size-independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexes
Supramolecular antenna-ring complexes are of great interest due to their presence in natural light-harvesting complexes. While such systems are known to provide benefits through robust and efficient energy funneling, the relation-ship between molecular structure, strain (governed by nuclear co-ordin...
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author | Parkinson, P Kamonsutthipaijit, N Anderson, H Herz, L |
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description | Supramolecular antenna-ring complexes are of great interest due to their presence in natural light-harvesting complexes. While such systems are known to provide benefits through robust and efficient energy funneling, the relation-ship between molecular structure, strain (governed by nuclear co-ordinates and motion) and energy dynamics (arising from electronic behavior) is highly complex. We present a synthetic antenna-nanoring system based on a series of conjugated porphyrin chromophores ideally suited to explore such effects. By systematically varying the size of the acceptor nanoring, we reveal the interplay between antenna-nanoring binding, local strain and energy dynamics on the picosecond timescale. Binding of the antenna unit creates a local strain in the nanoring, and this strain was measured as a function of the size of the nanoring, by UV-vis-NIR titration, providing information on the conformational flexibility of the system. Strikingly, the energy transfer rate is independent of nanoring size, indicating the existence of strain-localized acceptor states, spread over about six porphyrin units, arising from the non-covalent antenna-nanoring association. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:a5573353-5b50-4edb-9169-739cb1b54ac52022-03-27T02:39:50ZSize-independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a5573353-5b50-4edb-9169-739cb1b54ac5EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordAmerican Chemical Society2016Parkinson, PKamonsutthipaijit, NAnderson, HHerz, LSupramolecular antenna-ring complexes are of great interest due to their presence in natural light-harvesting complexes. While such systems are known to provide benefits through robust and efficient energy funneling, the relation-ship between molecular structure, strain (governed by nuclear co-ordinates and motion) and energy dynamics (arising from electronic behavior) is highly complex. We present a synthetic antenna-nanoring system based on a series of conjugated porphyrin chromophores ideally suited to explore such effects. By systematically varying the size of the acceptor nanoring, we reveal the interplay between antenna-nanoring binding, local strain and energy dynamics on the picosecond timescale. Binding of the antenna unit creates a local strain in the nanoring, and this strain was measured as a function of the size of the nanoring, by UV-vis-NIR titration, providing information on the conformational flexibility of the system. Strikingly, the energy transfer rate is independent of nanoring size, indicating the existence of strain-localized acceptor states, spread over about six porphyrin units, arising from the non-covalent antenna-nanoring association. |
spellingShingle | Parkinson, P Kamonsutthipaijit, N Anderson, H Herz, L Size-independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexes |
title | Size-independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexes |
title_full | Size-independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexes |
title_fullStr | Size-independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexes |
title_full_unstemmed | Size-independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexes |
title_short | Size-independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexes |
title_sort | size independent energy transfer in biomimetic nanoring complexes |
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