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- Kong, Jiahui, et al.
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Tetra- and Octapyrroles Synthesized from Confusion and Fusion Approaches
- 2016
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Ingår i: Organic Letters. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1523-7060 .- 1523-7052. ; 18:19, s. 5046-5049
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By oxidation of an alternately N-confused bilane in CH2Cl2, a C-N fused tetrapyrrin was synthesized that bears a 5.5.5-tricyclic ring generated from an intramolecular C-N linkage. When CH3CN was used as the reaction medium, a multiply C-N-fused octapyrrolic dimer was also obtained that contained two 5.5.5.7.5-pentacyclic moieties and a bipyrrole unit generated from the intramolecular C-N linkage and intermolecular C-C linkage, respectively. This could be coordinated with Ni(acac)(2) to afford a mixed-ligand complex.
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- Zhang, Xiaoyu, et al.
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Comparative Study on Pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine-Based Sensitizers by Tuning Bulky Donors for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
- 2015
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Ingår i: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1944-8244 .- 1944-8252. ; 7:4, s. 2760-2771
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with cobalt electrolytes have gained increasing attention. In this Research Article, two new pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine-based sensitizers with different cores of bulky donors (indoline for DT-1 and triphenylamine for DT-2) were designed and synthesized for a comparative study of their photophysical and electrochemical properties and device performance and were also analyzed through density functional theory calculations. The results of density function theory calculations reveal the limited electronic communication between the biphenyl branch at the cis-position of N-phenylindoline and the indoline core, which could act as an insulating blocking group and inhibit the dye aggregation and charge recombination at the interface of TiO2/dye/electrolyte. As expected, DSSCs based on DT-1 with cobalt redox electrolyte gained a higher photoelectric conversion efficiency of 8.57% under standard AM 1.5 G simulated sunlight, with J(sc) = 16.08 mA cm(-2), V-oc = 802 mV, and FF = 0.66. Both electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and intensity-modulated photovoltage spectroscopy (IMVS) suggest that charge recombination in DSSCs based on DT-1 is much less than that in their counterparts of DT-2, owing to the bigger donor size and the insulating blocking branch in the donor of DT-1.
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- Yang, Guosheng, et al.
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Efficient Solar Cells Based on Porphyrin Dyes with Flexible Chains Attached to the Auxiliary Benzothiadiazole Acceptor : Suppression of Dye Aggregation and the Effect of Distortion
- 2017
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Ingår i: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. - : AMER CHEMICAL SOC. - 1944-8244 .- 1944-8252. ; 9:42, s. 36875-36885
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Donor-pi-acceptor-type porphyrin dyes have been widely used for the fabrication of efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) owing to their strong absorption in the visible region and the ease of modifying their chemical structures and photovoltaic behavior. On the basis of our previously reported efficient porphyrin dye XW11, which contains a phenothiazine-based electron donor, a pi-extending ethynylene unit, and an auxiliary benzothiadiazole acceptor, we herein report the syntheses of novel porphyrin dyes XW26- XW28 by introducing one or two alkyl/alkoxy chains into the auxiliary acceptor. The introduced chains can effectively suppress dye aggregation. As a result, XW26 XW28 show excellent photovoltages of 700, 701, and 711 mV, respectively, obviously higher than 645 mV obtained for XW11. Nevertheless, the optimized structures of XW26 and XW27 exhibit severe distortion, showing large dihedral angles of 57.2(circle) and 44.0(circle), respectively, between the benzothiadiazole and benzoic acid units, resulting from the steric hindrance between the benzoic acid unit and the neighboring alkyl/alkoxy chain on the benzothiadiazole unit, and thus blue-shifted absorption, decreased photocurrents. and low efficiencies of 5.19% and 6.42% were observed for XW26 and XW27, respectively. Interestingly, XW26 exhibits a more blue -shifted absorption spectrum relative to XW27, indicating that the steric hindrance of the alkyl/alkoxy chains has a more pronounced effect than the electronic effect. Different from XW26 and XW27, XW28 contains only one alkyl chain neighboring the ethynylene unit, which does not induce obvious steric hindrance with the benzoic acid unit, and thus distortion of the molecule is not seriously aggravated compared with XW11. Hence, its absorption spectrum and photocurrent are similar to those of XW11. As a result, a higher efficiency of 9.12% was achieved for XW28 because of its suppressed dye aggregation and higher photovoltage. It is worth noting that a high efficiency of 10.14% was successfully achieved for XW28 upon coadsorption with CD CA, which is also higher than the corresponding efficiency obtained for XW11. These results provide a novel approach for developing efficient porphyrin dyes by introducing chains into the suitable position of the auxiliary benzothiadiazolyl moiety to suppress dye aggregation, without seriously aggravating distortion of the dye molecules.
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- Yang, Lin, et al.
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Red turn-on fluorescent phenazine-cyanine chemodosimeters for cyanide anion in aqueous solution and its application for cell imaging
- 2014
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Ingår i: Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical. - : Elsevier BV. - 0925-4005 .- 1873-3077. ; 203, s. 833-847
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two chemodosimeters PDMI and PMI for cyanide detection were designed and synthesized based onphenazinecyanine dyes with N-methyl indolium group as receptor unit. According to the specific reactivity of indolium C-N+ bond against cyanide anion, both of them featured high sensitivity with detectionlimit of 1.4 mu M and 200 nM, respectively, and high selectivity against other anions. The quenching effecton phenazine-cyanine fluorophore by strong intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) from phenazine donorto indolium receptor made both PDMI and PMI non-emissive at the original state. After addition ofcyanide, the ICT effect decreased and vanished leading to dramatic " off-on" fluorescence enhancement. PDMI which proceeded bilateral electrophilic reaction toward cyanide anion provided an emission signal at 580 nm in HEPES buffer with naked-eye detectable color change. Probe PMI utilized an unreactiveformyl group instead of one reactive N-methyl indolium group as the electron-withdrawing component. Due to the unilateral recognition process for cyanide the ICT orientation of PMI was redirectedthus exhibited fluorescence enhancement with maximum emission at 630 nm. Meanwhile, PMI wasapplied for monitoring intracellular cyanide in Hela cells and proved to achieve "off-on" fluorescentsignal confirmed by confocal laser scanning microscopic imaging.
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