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1Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 100080, People's Republic of China
Abstract:
Phenothiazine radical cation PTH(+*) and phenothiazine dication PTH(2+) produced by photoinduced electron transfer in phenothiazine/semiconductor systems have been studied by using ESR, UV-visible absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopic methods. It is found that the PTH(+*) was generated by electron transfer from (1)PTH* and (3)PTH* to the conduction band of the semiconductors besides PTH(+*) resulted in the photoionization of PTH as well as PTH(2+) produced by electron transfer from PTH(+*) to the conduction band of the semiconductors successively. Very significant supplementary information provided by UV-visible absorption, ESR, and resonance Raman spectra of PTH(+*) and PTH(2+), which were obtained by oxidation of PTH with lead tetraacetate, not only confirmed the two-step mono-electron-transfer mechanism proposed for interpretation of electron-transfer processes in PTH/semiconductor systems but also demonstrated that the two successive electron-transfer steps were corresponding to the removal of a p-electron at the nitrogen atom and a p-electron at the sulfur atom in the PTH molecule, respectively. Consequently, the nonplanar configuration of the PTH molecule changed into a planar configuration of the PTH(2+). Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
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