Co-host: The Chemical Society of Japan, The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (Cooperation)
Photoexcitation of a zinc phthalocyanine-perylenediimide (ZnPc-PDI) dyad affords the triplet excited state without the fluorescence emission, whereas addition of Mg2+ to the photoexcited ZnPc-PDI results in formation of a long-lived charge-separated state (ZnPc radical cation-PDI radical anion/Mg2+) in which PDI radical anion forms a complex with Mg2+. Similarly, Photoexcitation of a trinitrofluorenone-fulluren dyad (TNF-C60) results in formation of long-lived charge separated state in the presence of scandium ion.