Published December 8, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Three-photon absorption in anthracene-porphyrin-anthracene triads: A quantum-chemical study

  • 1. School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400 (United States)
  • 2. Service de Chimie des Materiaux Nouveaux, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, B-7000 Mons (Belgium)
  • 3. Department of Chemistry, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014 (China)
  • 4. Laboratory of Organic Solids, Center for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080 Beijing (China)

Description

We have applied correlated quantum-chemical methods to investigate the three-photon absorption (3PA) response of a porphyrin triad derivative, where the central macrocycle is linked in mesopositions to two anthracene units via acetylenic bridges. The 3PA frequency-dependent spectrum of this derivative is dominated by a single resonance feature in the transparent region, associated with charge-transfer states between porphyrin and anthracene. The calculations indicate a two order of magnitude enhancement in the 3PA cross section in the triad molecule with respect to the individual entities, which is attributed to close one-, two-, and three-photon resonances together with strong electronic couplings among the units

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Journal Title
Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal Volume
121
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
p. 11060-11067
ISSN
0021-9606
CODEN
JCPSA6

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(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics.