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<strong>Photochemistry</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Photophysics</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Coordination</strong> <strong>Compounds</strong>: Ruthenium 173<br />

same authors developed an alternative route based on amide linkage (49),<br />

finding a dramatic enhancement in the ability <strong>of</strong> the polymeric arrays to<br />

promote intrastr<strong>and</strong> energy transfer. In the (amide-functionalized) mixed<br />

polymers containing a 3 : 13 ratio between the lower-energy Os-based chromophores<br />

<strong>and</strong> the higher-energy Ru-based ones, triplet–triplet energy transfer<br />

was found to occur with an efficiency higher than 0.90 in acetonitrile<br />

solution.<br />

It was pointed out [310] that energy transfer from the excited Ru-based<br />

moieties to the ground-state Os-based moieties requires two processes: energy<br />

migration among the Ru-based units (site-to-site energy hopping) <strong>and</strong><br />

a final energy transfer from a Ru-based to a nearby Os-based unit. For both<br />

processes the rate constants exceeded 2 × 10 8 s –1 for the amide-linked polymer,<br />

whereas in the ether-linked polymer the rate constant for intrastr<strong>and</strong><br />

energy migration from ∗ Ru to Ru was orders <strong>of</strong> magnitude slower. The<br />

rate constants for the amide-linked species, coupled with the relatively long<br />

excited-state lifetime <strong>of</strong> the Ru-based chromophores (910 ns), account for the<br />

ability <strong>of</strong> the polymer arrays containing the amide-linked chromophores to<br />

act as efficient antennae. The reason for the different behavior <strong>of</strong> the etherlinked<br />

<strong>and</strong> amide-linked arrays lies in the direction <strong>of</strong> the excited-state MLCT<br />

dipole <strong>of</strong> the chromophores involved in the energy transfer processes. This<br />

dipole is directed toward the polymer backbone in the most effective amidelinked<br />

antenna systems, whereas it is out from the polymer backbone in the<br />

less efficient ether-linked arrays. This difference affects the electronic coupling<br />

between donor <strong>and</strong> acceptor sites <strong>of</strong> the energy migration processes.<br />

Ru(II) chromophores with appended electron acceptor (a methyl viologen<br />

species, A) <strong>and</strong> donor (a phenothiazine group, D) subunits have been incorporated<br />

within the antenna polystyrene system (50) [311], to play the role<br />

<strong>of</strong> “reaction center” (RC) units. In such an integrated antenna–RC polymer,

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