ABSTRACT
Recent progress on the design, construction, and photoinduced
energy-and electron-transfer applications of self-assembled donor-
acceptor arrays has been reviewed, focusing mainly on the
multiporphyrin-fullerene and multiporphyrin-SWCNT supramole-
cular arrays to construct photosynthetic antenna and reaction
center models. In addition to the covalently bonded entities,
self-assemblies through intermolecular interactions including π-π
attraction, ion-pairing, cation-dipole, hydrogen bonding, utilized in
the construction of multiporphyrin-fullerene or multiporphyrin-
SWCNT are discussed. The control over the energy-and electron-
transfer events upon excitation of the multiporphyrins in such
supramolecular arrays is accomplished. These studies demonstrate
that it is possible to develop self-assembled multiporphyrin con-
jugates capable of generating considerably high light converting
and long-lived charge-separated species useful for light-energy-
harvesting applications.
