Photoinduced Symmetry‐Breaking Charge Separation: The Direction of the Charge Transfer

• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201102601
• Publication Date: 2011-07-04T13:58:44Z
• Authors: Vesna Markovic; Diego Villamaina; Igor Barabanov; Latevi Max Lawson...; Eric Vauthey
• Keywords: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/540; ddc:540; 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

Even flow: Photoinduced symmetry-breaking charge separation takes place in a few picoseconds in a 1,3-bis(perylene)propane dyad in polar solvents. Polarized transient absorption measurements show that the direction of the charge flow is random and entirely governed by the fluctuations of the solvent orientation around the dyad.