Mediating Reductive Charge Shift Reactions in Electron Transport Chains

We report the synthesis of a full-fledged family of covalent electron donor–acceptor1–acceptor2 conjugates and their charge-transfer characterization by means of advanced photophysical assays. By virtue of variable excited state energies and electron donor strengths, either Zn(II)Porphyrins or Zn(II)Phthalocyanines were linked to different electron-transport chains featuring pairs of electron accepting fullerenes, that is, C60 and C70. In this...