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Article

Ultrafast Electron/Energy Transfer and Intersystem Crossing Mechanisms in BODIPY-Porphyrin Compounds

by
Yusuf Tutel
1,2,
Gökhan Sevinç
3,
Betül Küçüköz
1,4,*,
Elif Akhuseyin Yildiz
1,
Ahmet Karatay
1,*,
Fatih Mehmet Dumanoğulları
5,
Halil Yılmaz
5,
Mustafa Hayvali
5 and
Ayhan Elmali
1
1
Department of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara University, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
2
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
3
Department of Chemistry, Science and Literature Faculty, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University, 11230 Bilecik, Turkey
4
Department of the Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
5
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Processes 2021, 9(2), 312; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9020312
Submission received: 29 December 2020 / Revised: 3 February 2021 / Accepted: 5 February 2021 / Published: 8 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
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Abstract

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Meso-substituted borondipyrromethene (BODIPY)-porphyrin compounds that include free base porphyrin with two different numbers of BODIPY groups (BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP) were designed and synthesized to analyze intramolecular energy transfer mechanisms of meso-substituted BODIPY-porphyrin dyads and the effect of the different numbers of BODIPY groups connected to free-base porphyrin on the energy transfer mechanism. Absorption spectra of BODIPY-porphyrin conjugates showed wide absorption features in the visible region, and that is highly valuable to increase light-harvesting efficiency. Fluorescence spectra of the studied compounds proved that BODIPY emission intensity decreased upon the photoexcitation of the BODIPY core, due to the energy transfer from BODIPY unit to porphyrin. In addition, ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy measurements indicated that the energy transfer of the 3BDP-TTP compound (about 3 ps) is faster than the BDP-TTP compound (about 22 ps). Since the BODIPY core directly binds to the porphyrin unit, rapid energy transfer was seen for both compounds. Thus, the energy transfer rate increased with an increasing number of BODIPY moiety connected to free-base porphyrin.

1. Introduction

Borondipyrromethene (BODIPY) chromophores have attracted great interest, due to some favorable features such as sharp absorption and emission bands (500 nm), high fluorescence quantum yields and molar absorption coefficients, outstanding chemical photostability, and long excited state lifetimes[1,2,3,4,5]. They also have good solubility in organic solvents [3,5,6] and fluorescent properties modifiable with structural substations [2]. Furthermore, it is known that they are exceedingly stable dyes because they are relatively insensitive to the pH of the media [7]. It is a big advantage for BODIPY dyes to have been used in wide application areas such as biological labeling [8], luminescent devices [9], chemical sensors [10,11,12,13,14], light-harvesting arrays [15,16,17,18], supramolecular fluorescent gels [19], and triplet photosensitizers [20]. Double chromophore systems have been studied recently to investigate photoinduced intermolecular electron and/or energy transfer process such as some BODIPY-chromophores which are conjugated to porphyrin [15,21,22,23], pyrene [2,24], rhodamine [25], anthracene [26,27], carbazole [28], and BODIPY [29,30,31,32,33,34].
On the other hand, porphyrins, a group of tetrapyrrolic aromatic macrocycles, demonstrate a strong Soret band in the 400–800 nm region and four intense Q-bands, while metalloporphyrins display a dominant Soret band and one or two Q-bands in the same spectral region. They form complex structures with metal ions [35,36,37] and nonmetals [38], they are also the most widely investigated chromophores, due to their importance in biochemical processes [39,40,41]. Besides, due to their photosensitizing properties, porphyrins have been widely used as light-harvesting antennas to capture and transfer light to the other porphyrin units [42,43,44,45,46]. Since porphyrins do not absorb strongly in the range of 450 and 550 nm wavelength, they have a limited usage area in solar cell applications. In an attempt to enhance the light-harvesting capability and absorption features of porphyrins in that region, BODIPY chromophore, with its strong absorbing properties, can be attached to the porphyrin unit. BODIPY absorbs light strongly around 500 nm, while porphyrin absorbs strongly in the 420–450 nm region and weakly in the 500–700 nm region. Therefore, BODIPY and porphyrin have complementary light-absorbing features. Thus, BODIPY-porphyrin conjugates result in a wide range of absorption in the visible region, either covalently or non-covalently bonded, which is highly desirable to increase light-gathering efficiency across the solar spectrum. Generally, such molecular structures demonstrate efficient and rapid energy transfer from BODIPY to the porphyrin unit in accordance with the type of conjugation and the position of BODIPY. Increasing or decreasing the energy transfer rate is important for many applications and modifying this property in organic molecules provides great advantages [47,48,49].
By combining different numbers of BODIPY moiety to free-base porphyrin, it is possible to improve and modify some optical properties of porphyrin. We herein examine the optical properties and the energy transfer mechanism of the two porphyrin-based compounds with different numbers of BODIPY groups on the electronic energy levels of the porphyrin ring. The experimental results of fluorescence, excitation, and ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy measurements prove the energy transfer from the BODIPY unit to porphyrin.

2. Experiment

2.1. Materials and Equipment

Compound formyl-BODIPY was synthesized from the literature procedure [41]. All other solvents and reagents were purchased from Sigma Aldrich Co. and used as received. Reactions were monitored by TLC (with F254 indicator) on pre-coated silica gel plates revealed by exposure to a UV254 lamp. Barnstead Electrothermal 9100 platform was used for the melting point determinations. Mass spectra data were acquired in an Agilent Technologies 6224 (LC/MS) and Waters 2695 Alliance Micromass ZQ Mass spectrometer. NMR were measured by VARIAN Mercury instrument in deuterium chloroform (400 MHz for 1H and 100 MHz for 13C). Chemical shifts are reported in ppm versus internal Me4Si as a standard.

2.2. Synthesis

Synthesis of Compounds 5-{4-[8-(2,6-Diethyl-4,4-Difluoro-1,3,5,7-Tetramethyl-4-Bora-3a,4a-Diaza-S-Indacene)]-Phenyl}-10,15,20-Tris(4-Methylphenyl)Porphyrin (Bdp-Ttp) and 5,10,15-Tris{4-[8-(2,6-Diethyl-4,4-Difluoro-1,3,5,7-Tetramethyl-4-Bora-3a,4a-Diaza-S-Indacene)]-Phenyl}-20-(4-Methylphenyl)Porphyrin(3BDP-TTP).
1H-pyrrole (1.08 mmol, 75 µL), 4-methylbenzaldehyde (60 µL, 0.49 mmol) and formyl-BODIPY (200 mg, 0.49 mmol) were dissolved in absolute CH2Cl2 (50 mL). The reaction mixture was purged with argon bubbles for 5 min. As a catalyst, one drop of BF3.Et2O was added, and the solution was stirred for 1 h. At the end of this time, TLC analysis showed complete consumption of the aldehyde. Then, tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone (p-chloranil, 300 mg, 1.23 mmol) was added. Stirring was continued for another hour, then the crude product was washed with water, dried over Na2SO4, filtered, and evaporated to dryness. Column chromatography was conducted with benzene:chloroform elution (1:1; v/v) to isolate BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP, Scheme 1. In addition to isolated compounds, we also observed some unidentified compounds in trace amounts that could be porphyrin products with two and four BODIPY units from the mixture of the final products. According to thin layer chromatography, the mixture is believed to consist of a number of compounds from one to four meso-BODIPY substituted porphyrins. Yield: 33 mg (7%) for the compound 3BDP-TTP, mp > 300 °C and yield: 83 mg (11%) for the compound BDP-TTP, mp > 300 °C. BDP-TTP; 1H-NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ[ppm]: 8.92–8.84 (m, 8H), 8.35 (d, J = 8.4 Hz, 2H), 8.10 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 6H), 7.70 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 7.56 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 6H), 2.71 (s, 9H), 2.64 (s, 6H), 2.45 (q, J = 7.5 Hz, 4H), 1.84 (s, 6H), 1.11 (t, J = 7.6 Hz, 6H), −2.76 (s, 1H). 13C-NMR (100 MHz, CDCI3) δ: 154.2 (C=N), 139.0–127.0 (C=C phenyl), 143.2 (Cα), 131.2 (Cβ), 120.7 (Cmeso1), 118.8 (Cmeso2), 21.8, 17.5, 15.0, 12.8, 12.4. HRMS (TOF-ESI): Calcd. for as [C64H57BF2N6] m/z: 958.47058; found, 959.47618 [M+H]+, (1.75 ppm). 3BDP-TTP; 1H-NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ [ppm]: 8.98–8.82 (m, 8H), 8.40–8.37 (m, 6H), 8.12 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 2H), 7.76–7.73 (m, 6H), 7.58 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 2H), 2.72 (s, 3H), 2.65 (s, 18H), 2.42 (d, J = 7.6 Hz, 12H), 1.90–1.85 (m, 18H), 1.15–1.09 (m, 18H), −2.71 (s, 1H). 13C-NMR (100 MHz, CDCI3) δ: 154.4 (C=N), 140.0–127.1 (C=C phenyl), 142.9 (Cα), 131.2 (Cβ), 119.6 (Cmeso), 17.5, 15.0, 12.9, 12.5, 12.4. ES/MS calculated as [C96H95B3F6N10] m/z: 1534.79246; found, 1535.8119 [M+H]+, (7.92 ppm).

2.3. Optical Measurement

The UV-Vis absorption and fluorescence spectra of the BODIPY-porphyrin compounds were measured with Shimadzu UV-1800 and Perkin Elmer model LS 55 spectrophotometers, respectively.
Ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy measurements were carried out using Ti: Sapphire laser amplifier-optical parametric amplifier and a commercial pump-probe experimental setup (Spectra-Physics, Spitfire Pro XP, TOPAS, Helios). The pump wavelength was chosen as 524 nm and 400 nm to excite the singlet state of BODIPY and porphyrin, respectively, in the pump-probe experimental setup.

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Steady-State Absorption and Fluorescence Measurements

Figure 1 depicts the linear absorption spectra of BODIPY-porphyrin compounds (BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP) in THF solution. The dominant Soret bands of BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP are localized at 416 and 419 nm, respectively. In addition to that, weaker Q bands in the 500–700 nm region were observed for both compounds [5,41,50,51]. The absorption peak at 524 nm is attributed to the lowest energy transitions (S0–S1) of the BODIPY unit, while the strong absorption around 420 nm and weaker Q bands come from the free-base porphyrin. The Q bands correspond to the transition from S0 to S1 of porphyrin moiety. As seen in Figure 1, the intensity of the absorption signal at 524 nm increases with an increasing number of BODIPY units, as is expected.
The emission spectra of the BODIPY-porphyrin compounds excited at 524 nm correspond to the BODIPY singlet state excitation, shown in Figure 2. The BODIPY control unit shows the intense emission at 542 nm (Figure S1). The BODIPY-porphyrin compounds exhibit emission around 544 nm from BODIPY and around 653 nm and 718 nm from the porphyrin by the excitation of the BODIPY unit at 524 nm. BODIPY-based fluorescence is strongly quenched for BODIPY-porphyrin compounds compared to the fluorescence of the free BODIPY, provided in Figure S1. In addition, the excitation spectrum of BDP-TTP monitoring at 653 nm, attributed to the fluorescence of porphyrin, shows a similar BODIPY absorption feature at 524 nm, shown in Figure 3, and the other compound (3BDP-TTP) also shows similar results. Since the BODIPY absorption band is observed in the excitation spectra while monitoring the emission band of the porphyrin unit, it indicates the energy transfer from the BODIPY unit to porphyrin with the excitation of the BODIPY unit. The overlap of the fluorescence and absorption spectra are seen in Figure 4a,b for BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP, respectively. BODIPY-porphyrin compounds show Förster-type resonance energy transfer (FRET) from the BODIPY unit to porphyrin, due to the overlapping of the BODIPY emission spectrum and absorption of porphyrin Q-bands. To gain deeper insight of the energy transfer mechanism of the studied compounds, the pump-probe measurements were carried out.

3.2. Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy Measurements

Ultrafast wavelength-dependent pump-probe spectroscopy measurements were carried out to investigate the excited state dynamics in BODIPY-porphyrin compounds and understand the energy transfer mechanism. In ultrafast pump-probe experiments, upon photoexcitation of BODIPY-porphyrin compounds, the energy transfer from BODIPY to porphyrin is observed via FRET mechanism [21]. Next, the excited state electron transfers to the triplet state of porphyrin by the intersystem-crossing mechanism. The porphyrin-based triplet-excited states are lower than the corresponding BODIPY-based triplet-excited state, so “back transfer” from the porphyrin to the BODIPY triplet is not possible in these cases. Thus, the porphyrin-based triplet-excited states can be readily generated by initial excitation of the BODIPY part of the dyads [52]. Therefore, in this paper, we consider that the triplet-triplet transition is more efficient in the porphyrin unit than in that of BODIPY, and the ESA around 450 nm was ascribed to triplet transitions of the Porphyrin unit. For this purpose, BODIPY-porphyrin compounds were probed with a 120 fs white light continuum laser beam upon 400 nm and 524 nm pump excitation to excite porphyrin and BODIPY units, respectively.
Femtosecond transient absorption spectra for BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP are shown in Figure 5a and Figure 6a, respectively, with 524 nm pump wavelength. Transient absorption spectra of studied BODIPY-porphyrin compounds exhibited similar features, as compared to the literature [52,53]. As seen in these figures, the bleaching signal at the 524 nm has ascribed to the saturation of the singlet state of the BODIPY unit. The intensity of bleach signal of 3BDP-TTP is stronger than that of BDP-TTP, due to the higher energy transfer efficiency for 3BDP-TTP. The intensity of the bleaching signal of the BODIPY singlet-excited state is greatly diminished with the time delay as a result of the rapid energy transfer from the BODIPY-based singlet-excited state to singlet state of porphyrin. The decay traces of the bleaching signals were fitted by using a multiexponential function and probing 524 nm wavelength to obtain the energy transfer rates. The intramolecular energy transfer rates were obtained as 22 ps for BDP-TTP and 3 ps for 3BDP-TTP at the 524 nm probe wavelength, provided in Figure 5b and Figure 6b, respectively. The increase in the energy transfer rate from BODIPY to porphyrin is related to the energy difference between the singlet states of the BODIPY and porphyrin. The red shifting of the BODIPY emission spectrum in Figure 2 corresponds to the increasing of energy transfer rate in the BODIPY-porphyrin compound. Besides, the excited state absorption (ESA) signals of porphyrin rise simultaneously, while the intensity of the bleach signal around 524 nm that decreases over time (Figure 5a and Figure 6a). Similar to previous literature [21,54], the singlet-triplet transition (Intersystem crossing mechanism-ISC) of the porphyrin was observed for the studied BODIPY-porphyrin compounds after the fast singlet energy transfer from BODIPY to porphyrin. Further, the strong excited state absorption signal appeared around 450 nm which is attributed to the triplet-triplet transition of the porphyrin unit. Porphyrin is a well-studied molecule in terms of the tendency of the ISC, and the triplet-triplet absorption of porphyrin is very characteristic and well known in the literature. Our observation on the ESA from the triplet level of the porphyrin also supports the previous studies. On the other hand, ultrafast pump probe experiments were also performed for the tetratoly porphyrin compound, which was used as a reference compound, and 3BDP-TTP compound was used to confirm whether there is an energy transfer from the porphyrin unit to BODIPY core or not. The experimental results showed that the transient absorption spectra of the tetratolyl porphyrin compound exhibits similar transient absorption characteristic features as compared to the 3BDP-TTP compound by populating the singlet state of the porphyrin unit at 400 nm pump wavelength (Figures S2 and S3). Upon the photoexcitation of BODIPY-porphyrin compounds at 400 nm, corresponding to the linear absorption band of porphyrin, only porphyrin-based transient absorption features were observed, while any BODIPY-based transient absorption property could not be seen. This result showed that there is no reverse energy transfer from the porphyrin to BODIPY unit, as seen in Figure S3.
According to the literature [52], the energy transfer mechanism is attributed to the Förster-type energy transfer mechanism. The measured energy transfer rates from BODIPY to porphyrin are faster than in the literature [52], due to the spatial closeness of BODIPY and porphyrin molecules. In addition, energy transfer rates increase when increasing the number of BODIPY units, as seen in Figure 7. Therefore, increasing the number of BODIPY units provides not only an increasing absorption of the compound but also increases the energy transfer rate, due to slight energy level changes. The energy transfer diagram was given in Figure 8.

4. Conclusions

In summary, we studied the energy transfer mechanism of the novel synthesized BODIPY-porphyrin compounds, including different numbers of BODIPY units, by performing steady-state absorption and emission spectroscopy and ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy techniques. The fluorescence and excitation measurement results confirm that the energy transfer from the BODIPY unit to porphyrin occurs for the studied compounds and that energy transfer is also supported with ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy results. There is a significant fluorescence quenching from the BODIPY unit which is strong evidence for the efficient energy transfer mechanism. Intermolecular energy transfer rates were obtained as 22 ps for BDP-TTP and 3 ps for 3BDP-TTP. The energy transfer rate increases with the increasing number of BODIPY units, due to the bigger overlapping on absorption and fluorescence spectra. Further, it has been proven that this energy transfer only happens in one direction (from BODIPY to porphyrin). These findings can lead to investigating the better antenna effect for the BODIPY-porphyrin compound with varying numbers of BODIPY units.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/9/2/312/s1.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, B.K., A.K., M.H. and A.E.; data curation, Y.T. and E.A.Y.; investigation, Y.T., G.S., E.A.Y., F.M.D. and H.Y.; methodology, B.K., A.K., M.H. and A.E.; resources, G.S., F.M.D. and H.Y.; supervision, B.K. and A.K.; writing—original draft preparation, Y.T., G.S. and B.K.; writing—review and editing, E.A.Y., A.K., M.H. and A.E. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Scheme 1. The synthesis of porphyrin-borondipyrromethene (BODIPY) sensitizers BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP (i acid catalyst BF3. Et2O, CH2Cl2, 1 h, rt ii) p-Chloranil, 1 h, rt.
Scheme 1. The synthesis of porphyrin-borondipyrromethene (BODIPY) sensitizers BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP (i acid catalyst BF3. Et2O, CH2Cl2, 1 h, rt ii) p-Chloranil, 1 h, rt.
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Figure 1. Steady-state absorption spectra of BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP compounds in THF (2 × 10−6 M).
Figure 1. Steady-state absorption spectra of BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP compounds in THF (2 × 10−6 M).
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Figure 2. Emission spectra of BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP solutions in THF with the 524 nm excitation wavelength (2 × 10−6 M).
Figure 2. Emission spectra of BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP solutions in THF with the 524 nm excitation wavelength (2 × 10−6 M).
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Figure 3. The excitation spectrum of 3BDP-TTP compound monitoring at the 653 nm wavelength.
Figure 3. The excitation spectrum of 3BDP-TTP compound monitoring at the 653 nm wavelength.
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Figure 4. The overlap of the linear absorption and emission spectra of (a) BDP-TTP and (b) 3BDP-TTP with 524 nm excitation wavelengths.
Figure 4. The overlap of the linear absorption and emission spectra of (a) BDP-TTP and (b) 3BDP-TTP with 524 nm excitation wavelengths.
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Figure 5. (a) The transient absorption spectra of BDP-TTP with different time delays. (b) Decay traces of the BDP-TTP at the 524 nm probe wavelength.
Figure 5. (a) The transient absorption spectra of BDP-TTP with different time delays. (b) Decay traces of the BDP-TTP at the 524 nm probe wavelength.
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Figure 6. (top) The transient absorption spectra of 3BDP-TTP with different time delays. (bottom) Decay traces of 3BDP-TTP at the 524 nm probe wavelength.
Figure 6. (top) The transient absorption spectra of 3BDP-TTP with different time delays. (bottom) Decay traces of 3BDP-TTP at the 524 nm probe wavelength.
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Figure 7. (a) Decay kinetics of BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP at 524 nm probe wavelength. (b) The inset represents zoomed decay traces between a 0 and 16 ps timescale.
Figure 7. (a) Decay kinetics of BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP at 524 nm probe wavelength. (b) The inset represents zoomed decay traces between a 0 and 16 ps timescale.
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Figure 8. Energy level diagrams for BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP compounds.
Figure 8. Energy level diagrams for BDP-TTP and 3BDP-TTP compounds.
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