1.1 Porphyrins - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
1.1 Porphyrins - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
1.1 Porphyrins - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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3 Discussion and Results<br />
3.2.9 Potential Strategies for the Development of Novel Photosensitizers<br />
3.2.9.1 Concepts in Focus<br />
With 92, a sensitizer was obtained having outstanding characteristics:<br />
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• Fully synthetic accessibility in high yields (∼ 46 % overall from parental porphyrin<br />
hν<br />
system 88) as pure and well-defined substance.<br />
• High stability towards light and oxygen. 104<br />
• Good to excellent solubility in organic solvents including alcohols and ethers without<br />
any tendency to self-aggregation.<br />
• High quantum yields for the generation of cytotoxic singlet oxygen.<br />
Together with the amino group, providing the ability to couple that system to any<br />
(carboxylic) acid moiety, 92 can be regarded as potential photoactive dye for the<br />
implementation into 3 rd generation sensitizers like it has already been shown in Scheme 16<br />
(p. 20). As 92 showed up highly effective as monomer, a huge multiplier could be possibly<br />
unnecessary.<br />
Furthermore, it provides the possibility to study novel approaches to photosensitization. An<br />
innovative concept thereto is the utilization of the so-called FÖRSTER resonance energy<br />
transfer (FRET) 107c describing non-radiative energy transfer mechanisms between different<br />
dye molecules. In the two-dye case, the donor chromophore is excited by light and<br />
transferring energy to a proximately situated acceptor chromophore by long-range dipole-<br />
dipole coupling. Since the distance between these two dyes is very small (typically < 10 nm)<br />
it is much smaller than the wavelength of light used so that the process can be regarded as<br />
the emission and absorption of a virtual photon like it is depicted in Scheme 58.<br />
FRET<br />
(addressable)<br />
linkage<br />
Scheme 58. Excitation of an acceptor dye by FRET<br />
where hν stands for photons capable to excite the<br />
donor dye. The linker is bringing both dyes into the<br />
correct orientation towards each other and could be<br />
further used to attach the dye-pair to an organic<br />
substrate or a functional surface.