Permanent Dipole Moments Enhance Electronic Coupling and Singlet Fission in Pentacene

Singlet fission (SF), the photophysical process in which one singlet exciton is transformed into two triplets, depends inter alia on the coupling of electronic states. Here, we use fluorination and the resulting changes in partial charge distribution across the chromophore backbone as a particularly...

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Veröffentlicht in:The journal of physical chemistry letters 2021-08, Vol.12 (31), p.7453-7458
Hauptverfasser: Zeiser, Clemens, Moretti, Luca, Geiger, Thomas, Kalix, Lukas, Valencia, Ana M, Maiuri, Margherita, Cocchi, Caterina, Bettinger, Holger F, Cerullo, Giulio, Broch, Katharina
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Zusammenfassung:Singlet fission (SF), the photophysical process in which one singlet exciton is transformed into two triplets, depends inter alia on the coupling of electronic states. Here, we use fluorination and the resulting changes in partial charge distribution across the chromophore backbone as a particularly powerful tool to control this parameter in pentacene. We find that the introduction of a permanent dipole moment leads to an enhanced coupling of Frenkel exciton and charge transfer states and to an increased SF rate which we probed using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy. These findings are contrasted with H-aggregate formation and a significantly reduced triplet-pair state lifetime in a fluorinated pentacene for which the different partial charge distribution leads to a negligible dipole moment.
ISSN:1948-7185
1948-7185
DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01805