Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Energy transfer from a rhodamine antenna to a ruthenium-bipyridine center

  • Paper
  • Published:
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The coordination of a modified rhodamine B (Rhod) to a bis-bipyridine ruthenium (ii) (Ru-bpy) phototrigger complex enables a photodissociation reaction at longer wavelengths through enhanced absorption of green light (532 nm). The very high molar absorptivity of rhodamine (~105 M−1 cm−1) and the high quantum efficiency of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) from rhodamine to the Ru-bpy center (0.84) result in an unusually high photosensitivity and uncaging cross-section of the Ru-bpy-rhodamine complex at longer wavelengths.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. B. O’Regan, M. Grätzel, A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films, Nature, 1991, 353, 737.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. M. Grätzel, Photoelectrochemical cells, Nature, 2001, 414, 338.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. M. Grätzel, Recent advances in sensitized mesoscopic solar cells, Acc. Chem. Res., 2009, 42, 1788.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. A. Morandeira, I. López-Duarte, B. O’Regan, M. V. Martínez-Díaz, A. Forneli, E. Palomares, T. Torres, J. R. Durranta, Ru(ii)-phthalocyanine sensitized solar cells: the influence of co-adsorbents upon interfacial electron transfer kinetics, J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 5016.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Z. Jin, H. Masuda, N. Yamanaka, M. Minami, T. Nakamura, Y. Nishikitani, Efficient electron transfer ruthenium sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 113. 6, 2618.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. E. Badaeva, V. V. Albert, S. Kilina, A. Koposov, M. Sykora, S. Tretiak, Effect of deprotonation on absorption and emission spectra of Ru(ii)-bpy complexes functionalized with carboxyl groups, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 8902.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. S. Nakade, W. Kubo, Y. Saito, T. Kanzaki, T. Kitamura, Y. Wada, S. Yanagida, Influence of measurement conditions on electron diffusion in nanoporous TiO2 films: effects of bias light and dye adsorption, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 107. 51, 14244.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. L. Zayat, C. Calero, P. Alborés, L. Baraldo, R. Etchenique, A new strategy for neurochemical photodelivery: metal-ligand heterolytic cleavage, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125. 4, 882.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. G. Mayer, A. Heckel, Biologically active molecules with a “light switch”, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 4900.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. D. V. Pinnick, B. Durham, Photosubstitution reactions of Ru(bpy)2XYn+ complexes, Inorg. Chem., 1984, 23, 1440.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. P. S. Wagenknechta, P. C. Ford, Metal centered ligand field excited states: their roles in the design and performance of transition metal based photochemical molecular devices, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2011, 255, 591.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. A. B. P. Lever, Electrochemical parametrization of metal complex redox potentials, using the ruthenium(iii)/ruthenium(ii) couple to generate a ligand electrochemical series, Inorg. Chem., 1990, 29, 1271.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. L. Zayat, M. Salierno, R. Etchenique, Ruthenium(ii) bipyridyl complexes as photolabile caging groups for amines, Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 1728.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. J. del Mármol, O. Filevich, R. Etchenique, A ruthenium-rhodamine complex as an activatable fluorescent probe, Anal. Chem., 2010, 82. 14, 6259.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. M. J. Rose, M. M. Olmstead, P. K. Mascharak, Photosensitization via dye coordination: a new strategy to synthesize metal nitrosyls that release NO under visible light, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129. 17, 5342.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. N. L. Fry, P. K. Mascharak, Photoactive ruthenium nitrosyls as NO donors: how to sensitize them toward visible light, Acc. Chem. Res., 2011, 44. 4, 289.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. T. Forster, Transfer mechanisms of electronic excitation energy, Radiat. Res., Suppl., 1960, 2, 326.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. S. E. Braslavsky, E. Fron, H. B. Rodríguez, E. San Román, G. D. Scholes, G. Schweitzer, B. Valeur, J. Wirz, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2008, 7, 1444.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. P. Woolley, K. G. Steinhäuser, B. Epe, Förster-type energy transfer Simultaneous ‘forward’ and ‘reverse’ transfer between unlike fluorophores, Biophys. Chem., 1987, 26, 367.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  20. T. López Arbeloa, M. J. Tapia Estévez, F. López Arbeloa, I. Urretxa Aguirresacona, I. López Arbeloa, Luminescence properties of rhodamines in water-ethanol mixtures, J. Lumin., 1991, 48-49, 400.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  21. C. Viala, C. Coudret, An expeditious route to cis-Ru(bpy)2Cl2 (bpy: 2,2’-bipyridine) using carbohydrate as reducers, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2006, 359, 984.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, INQUIMAE, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria Pabellón 2 Piso 3, C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Oscar Filevich, Beatriz García-Acosta & Roberto Etchenique

Authors
  1. Oscar Filevich
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Beatriz García-Acosta
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Roberto Etchenique
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Roberto Etchenique.

Additional information

Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Schematics of the optical bench used for fluorescence measurements; sequence of UV-Vis absorption spectra during photolysis of RuBiMAPN; sequence of UV-Vis emission spectra during photolysis of RuBiMAPNRhod. See DOI: 10.1039/c2pp05415a

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Filevich, O., García-Acosta, B. & Etchenique, R. Energy transfer from a rhodamine antenna to a ruthenium-bipyridine center. Photochem Photobiol Sci 11, 843–847 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1039/c2pp05415a

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c2pp05415a

Search

Navigation