Photoinduced charge separation of a phenothiazine–anthraquinone dyad 1 with a rigid bicyclo[2.2.2]octane spacer was investigated by means of picosecond and nanosecond transient absorption and time-resolved ESR spectroscopies. Irradiation of the anthraquinone chromophore in 1 produced the charge-separated (CS) state in THF. Time constants of the formation and the decay of the CS state were determined to be 1.3 ns and 1.0 µs, respectively. Time-resolved ESR showed spin-polarized all-emission signals due to the formation of the CS state via the triplet mechanism.
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