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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 />

124<br />

• 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.

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