Thermodynamic Control of Intramolecular Singlet Fission and Exciton Transport in Linear Tetracene Oligomers
Shunta Nakamura, Hayato Sakai, Masaaki Fuki, Rikuto Ooie, Fumitaka Ishiwari, Akinori Saeki, Nikolai V. Tkachenko, Yasuhiro Kobori, Taku Hasobe
Abstract
Abstract We newly synthesized a series of homo‐ and hetero‐tetracene (Tc) oligomers to propose a molecular design strategy for the efficient exciton transport in linear oligomers by promoting correlated triplet pair (TT) dissociation and controlling sequential exciton trapping process of individual doubled triplet excitons (T+T) by intramolecular singlet fission. First, entropic gain effects on the number of Tc units are examined by comparing Tc‐homo‐oligomers [(Tc) n : n =2, 4, 6]. Then, a comparison of (Tc) n and Tc‐hetero‐oligomer [TcF 3 ‐(Tc) 4 ‐TcF 3 ] reveals the vibronic coupling effect for entropic gain. Observed entropic effects on the T+T formation indicated that the exciton migration is rationalized by number of possible TT states increased both by increasing the number of Tc units and by the vibronic levels at the terminal TcF 3 units. Finally, we successfully observed high‐yield exciton trapping process (trapped triplet yield: Φ TrT =176 %).