Photophysics of soret-excited tin(IV) porphyrins in solution.

The photophysics of low-chlorin tin(IV) tetraphenylporphyrin dihydroxide, a core building block for axially substituted supramolecular tin porphyrin constructs, has been studied in a variety of hydrogen-bonding, nonpolar, and aprotic polar solvents using steady-state, nanosecond, and femtosecond time-resolved emission, and femtosecond time-resolved absorption methods. In hydrogen-bonding solvents the metalloporphyrin exists as solvated monomers, and its Soret-excited S2 state in these solvents exhibits the expected linear energy gap law relationship with first-order population decay times in the 0.8 to 1.