Light-Harvesting Energy Transfer and Subsequent Electron Transfer of Cationic Porphyrin Complexes on Clay Surfaces

摘要

A novel energy-transfer system involving nonaggregated cationic porphyrins adsorbed on an anionic-type clay surface and the electron-transfer reaction that occurs after light harvesting are described.In the clay-porphyrin complexes,photochemical energy transfer from excited singlet zinc porphyrins to free-base porphyrins proceeds.The photochemical electron-transfer reaction from an electron donor in solution (hydroquinone) to the adsorbed porphyrin in the excited singlet state was also examined.Because the electron-transfer rate from the hydroquinone to the excited singlet free-base porphyrin is larger than that to the excited singlet zinc porphyrin,we conclude that the energy transfer accelerates the overall electron-transfer reaction.