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Miller, Claire E.

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Direct Observation of a Charge-Transfer State Preceding High-Yield Singlet Fission in Terrylenediimide Thin Films

Singlet exciton fission (SF) in organic chromophore assemblies results in the conversion of one singlet exciton (S 1 ) into two triplet excitons (T 1 ), provided that the overall process is exoergic, i.e., E (S 1 ) > 2 E (T 1 ). In this paper, we report on SF in thin polycrystalline films of two terrylene-3,4:11,12-bis(dicarboximide) (TDI) derivatives 1 and 2 , which crystallize into two distinct π-stacked structures. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (fsTA) reveals a charge-transfer state preceding a 190% T 1 yield in films of 1 , where the π-stacked TDI molecules are rotated by 23° along an axis perpendicular to their π systems. In contrast, when the TDI molecules are slip-stacked along their N–N axes in films of 2 , fsTA shows excimer formation, followed by a 50% T 1 yield.

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