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- Title
A Case‐Study on the Photophysics of Chalcogen‐Substituted Zinc(II) Phthalocyanines.
- Authors
Ezquerra Riega, Sergio D.; Gutierrez Suburu, Matías E.; Rodríguez, Hernán B.; Lantaño, Beatriz; Kleinschmidt, Martin; Marian, Christel M.; Strassert, Cristian A.
- Abstract
Singlet dioxygen has been widely applied in different disciplines such as medicine (photodynamic therapy or blood sterilization), remediation (wastewater treatment) or industrial processes (fine chemicals synthesis). Particularly, it can be conveniently generated by energy transfer between a photosensitizer's triplet state and triplet dioxygen upon irradiation with visible light. Among the best photosensitizers, substituted zinc(II) phthalocyanines are prominent due to their excellent photophysical properties, which can be tuned by structural modifications, such as halogen‐ and chalcogen‐atom substitution. These patterns allow for the enhancement of spin‐orbit coupling, commonly attributed to the heavy atom effect, which correlates with the atomic number (Z ${Z}$) and the spin‐orbit coupling constant (ζ ${\zeta }$) of the introduced heteroatom. Herein, a fully systematic analysis of the effect exerted by chalcogen atoms on the photophysical characteristics (absorption and fluorescence properties, lifetimes and singlet dioxygen photogeneration), involving 30 custom‐made β‐tetrasubstituted chalcogen‐bearing zinc(II) phthalocyanines is described and evaluated regarding the heavy atom effect. Besides, the intersystem crossing rate constants are estimated by several independent methods and a quantitative profile of the heavy atom is provided by using linear correlations between relative intersystem crossing rates and relative atomic numbers. Good linear trends for both intersystem crossing rates (S1‐T1 and T1‐S0) were obtained, with a dependency on the atomic number and the spin‐orbit coupling constant scaling as Z0.4 ${{Z}^{0.4}}$ and ζ0.2 ${{\zeta }^{0.2}}$ , respectively The trend shows to be independent of the solvent and temperature.
- Subjects
REACTIVE oxygen species; SPIN-orbit interactions; SPIN-orbit coupling constants; PHTHALOCYANINES; ATOMIC number; ZINC; PHOTODYNAMIC therapy
- Publication
Chemistry - A European Journal, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 26, p1
- ISSN
0947-6539
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/chem.202304083