Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of polymer-based organophotoredox catalysts mimicking transition-metal complexes

Jamhawi, Abdelqader

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Title

Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of polymer-based organophotoredox catalysts mimicking transition-metal complexes

Author(s)

Jamhawi, Abdelqader

Contributor(s)

• Liu, Jinjun
• Handa, Sachin
• Smith, Justin D.
• Paul, Anam C.

Issue Date

2017-06-20

Keyword(s)

Multiple potential energy surfaces

Abstract

Transition-metal complexes of rare earth metals including ruthenium and iridium are most commonly employed as visible-light photocatalysts. Despite their highly important and broad applications, they have many disadvantages including high cost associated with low abundance in earth crust, potential toxicity, requirement of specialized ligands for desired activity, and difficulty in recycling of metal contents as well as associated ligands. Polymer-based organophotoredox catalysts are promising alternatives and possess unique advantages such as easier synthesis from inexpensive starting material, longer excited state life time, broad range of activity, sustainability, and recyclability. In this research talk, time-resolved photoluminescence and femtosecond transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy measurements of three novel polymer-based organophotoredox catalysts will be presented. By our synthetic team, their catalytic activity has been proven in some highly valuable chemical transformations, that otherwise require transition metal complexes. Time-resolved spectroscopic investigations have demonstrated that photoinduced processes in these catalysts are similar to the transition metal complexes. Especially, intramolecular vibrational relaxation, internal conversion, and intersystem crossing from the S1 state to the T1 state all occur on a sub-picosecond timescale. The long lifetime of the T1 state (~2-3 microsecond) renders these polymers potent oxidizing and reducing agents. A spectroscopic and kinetic model has been developed for global fitting of TA spectra in both the frequency and time domains. Implication of the current ultrafast spectroscopy studies of these novel molecules to their roles in photocatalysis will be discussed.

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International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

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Language

eng

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https://doi.org/10.15278/isms.2017.TG03

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Copyright 2017 Abdelqader Jamhawi

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