Our group is interested in designing novel supramolecular systems that could be used for photoinduced charge transfer applications. Currently these systems fall into two categories: 1) those that unite fullerene/coronene/corannulene and transition metal subunits and 2) those that create extended organic structures that surround a transition metal center and allow for their controlled polymerization into linear �molecular wires�. This poster presents recent spectroscopic measurements on several subunits of interest to both of these categories. Presented measurements include absorption, emission (steady-state and time-resolved), emission polarization and transient absorption measurements at various temperatures. Results will be presented, along with an interpretation of the picture they paint for these supramolecular complexes and semi-empirical calculations to support this interpretation.

NKU fullerene research: Spectroscopic study of charge transfer in organometallic supramolecular systems containing novel fullerene-transition metal building blocks

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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