A major focus of our group has been on supramolecular systems that incorporate fullerenes and transition metal chromophores that have unique photoinduced excited state behavior. While we have successfully completed spectroscopic studies on small molecule systems containing these two units, there is still much to learn on the modifications of these molecules that would allow them to be used as building blocks for polymers. This poster provides recent spectroscopic data on some of these building blocks and their ensuing polymers, including absorption, emission, and transient absorption measurements at multiple temperatures. This data will be compared to previously explored systems to better understand if these new molecules exhibit similar excited-state behavior. Preliminary interpretation suggests that these new systems show enhanced excited-state behavior when compared to our first-generation small molecule systems.

NKU Spectroscopic Research: Studies on polymers and their subunits that incorporate fullerenes and transition metal chromophores

249th National Meeting (2015)

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