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Two-semiconductive-component hybrid coordination polymers with controllable photo-induced electron-transfer
Jian-Jun Liu1, Yong Chen1, Mei-Jin Lin2
1College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 350116, China. meijin_lin@fzu.edu.cn cchuang@fzu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Two semiconductive inorganic-organic hybrid coordination polymers constructed from metal iodide clusters and naphthalene diimide semiconductive components, [Cu2I2(DPNDI)]n () and [PbI2(DPNDI)]n () (DPNDI = N,N'-di-(4-pyridyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthalene diimide), have been synthesized and characterized. Although possessing similar 2D heterostructures, hybrids exhibited different photo-induced electron-transfer properties. Due to the higher HOMO energy level of the [Cu2I2]n chain than that of the [PbI2]n cluster, only hybrid can easily undergo intramolecular electron transfer to form a long-lived charge separated state, which may be applied in artificial photosynthesis.
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