Understanding and Controlling Short- and Long-Range Electron/Charge-Transfer Processes in Electron Donor–Acceptor Conjugates

We probed a series of multicomponent electron donor2–donor1–acceptor1 conjugates both experimentally and computationally. The conjugates are based on the light harvester and primary electron-donor zinc-porphyrin (ZnP, donor1) to whose β positions a secondary electron-donor ferrocene (Fc, donor2) and the primary electron-acceptor C60-fullerene (C60, acceptor1) are attached. Linking all of them via p-phenylene-acetylene/acetylene bridges of...