A donor− acceptor charge transfer system based on two discotic mesogens has been synthesized. The donor is either a triphenylene (POG0) or a triphenylene-based conjugated dendron (POG1), while the acceptor is a perylene diimide (PDI) core. The donors are covalently linked to the bay positions of the PDI core through an ether linkage. In chloroform, due to the short donor− acceptor distance and the matching frontier orbital levels, ...
[Ramanan, Charusheela; Smeigh, Amanda L.; Anthony, John E.; Marks, Tobin J.; Wasielewski, Michael R. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012 , vol. 134, # 1 p. 386 - 397]