Photons or electrons? A critical comparison of electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis for organic synthesis

NES Tay, D Lehnherr, T Rovis - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Redox processes are at the heart of synthetic methods that rely on either electrochemistry or
photoredox catalysis, but how do electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis compare? Both …

Theoretical modeling of singlet fission

D Casanova - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission is a photophysical reaction in which a singlet excited electronic state splits
into two spin-triplet states. Singlet fission was discovered more than 50 years ago, but the …

Efficient multiexciton state generation in charge-transfer-coupled perylene bisimide dimers via structural control

Y Hong, J Kim, W Kim, C Kaufmann, H Kim… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The singlet fission (SF) process is generally defined as the conversion of one singlet exciton
(S1) into two triplet excitons (2· T1), which has the potential to overcome thermalization …

Spatial separation of triplet excitons drives endothermic singlet fission

NV Korovina, CH Chang, JC Johnson - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Molecules that undergo singlet fission, converting singlet excitons into pairs of triplet
excitons, have potential as photovoltaic materials. The possible advantages of endothermic …

Linker-dependent singlet fission in tetracene dimers

NV Korovina, J Joy, X Feng… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Separation of triplet excitons produced by singlet fission is crucial for efficient application of
singlet fission materials. While earlier works explored the first step of singlet fission, the …

Unified model for singlet fission within a non-conjugated covalent pentacene dimer

BS Basel, J Zirzlmeier, C Hetzer, BT Phelan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
When molecular dimers, crystalline films or molecular aggregates absorb a photon to
produce a singlet exciton, spin-allowed singlet fission may produce two triplet excitons that …

Tuning the role of charge-transfer states in intramolecular singlet exciton fission through side-group engineering

S Lukman, K Chen, JM Hodgkiss, DHP Turban… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the mechanism of singlet exciton fission, in which a singlet exciton separates
into a pair of triplet excitons, is crucial to the development of new chromophores for efficient …

Direct observation of a charge-transfer state preceding high-yield singlet fission in terrylenediimide thin films

EA Margulies, JL Logsdon, CE Miller… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission (SF) in organic chromophore assemblies results in the conversion of
one singlet exciton (S1) into two triplet excitons (T1), provided that the overall process is …

Tuning singlet fission in π-bridge-π chromophores

E Kumarasamy, SN Sanders… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We have designed a series of pentacene dimers separated by homoconjugated or
nonconjugated bridges that exhibit fast and efficient intramolecular singlet exciton fission …

Pentacene dimers as a critical tool for the investigation of intramolecular singlet fission

C Hetzer, DM Guldi… - Chemistry–A European …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Singlet fission (SF) involves the spontaneous splitting of a photoexcited singlet state into a
pair of triplets, and it holds great promise toward the realization of more efficient solar cells …