Light-harvesting metal-based dendrimers

Figure 13. Structural formulas and schematic representation of some components used for the construction of light-harvesting metal-based dendrimers [37, 38],...

Keywords. Metal-based dendrimers, electrochemistry, multielectron processes, luminescence, light harvesting. 

V. Balzani, S. Campagna, G. Denti, A Juris, S. Serroni, M. Venturi, Designing Dendrimers Based on Transition-Metal Complexes. Light-harvesting Properties and Predetermined Redox Patterns , Acc Chem Res. 1998, 31, 26-34. 

Balzani V, Campagna S, Denti G, Juris A, Serroni S, Venturi M. Designing dendrimers based on transition-metal complexes. Light-harvesting properties and predetermined redox patterns. Acc Chem Res 1998 31 26-34. 

Generally speaking, an antenna for light harvesting is an organized multicomponent system in which several chro-mophoric molecular species absorb the incident light and channel the excitation energy to a common acceptor component. Artificial antenna systems based on porphyrin arrays [63], multichromophoric cyclodextrins [64], polynuclear metal complexes [65, 66], dendrimers [66-68], and polymers [69, 70] have been reported. In all these systems, the chromophoric units are connected by means of covalent... 

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