Faculty Mentor
Dr. Catherine McCusker
Mentor Home Department
Chemistry
Short Abstract
The utilization of solar energy remains secondary to the combustion of fossil fuels for global energy consumption. To better utilize this abundant energy resource, experimental effort is being directed towards the understanding of photosensitizers, molecules that absorb solar radiation and use that energy to initiate redox chemistry in artificial photosynthesis mechanisms. A zinc dipyrrin, one such class of photosensitizer, is attempted to be synthesized with phenyl substitutions in order to probe aromatic substituent effects on the molecule’s photophysics.
Category
Science and Technology
Start Date
24-4-2023 9:45 AM
End Date
24-4-2023 10:00 AM
Location
D.P. Culp Center Room 219
Synthesis and Characterization of a Phenyl Substituted Zinc Dipyrrin Photosensitizer
D.P. Culp Center Room 219
The utilization of solar energy remains secondary to the combustion of fossil fuels for global energy consumption. To better utilize this abundant energy resource, experimental effort is being directed towards the understanding of photosensitizers, molecules that absorb solar radiation and use that energy to initiate redox chemistry in artificial photosynthesis mechanisms. A zinc dipyrrin, one such class of photosensitizer, is attempted to be synthesized with phenyl substitutions in order to probe aromatic substituent effects on the molecule’s photophysics.