The laser flash photolysis of material
1 (layered
-ZrP containing covalently attached Ru(bpy)
3- and C60-phosphonates), dyad
2, and material
3 (amorphous solid Zr(
n-BuO) derivative of dyad
2) was accomplished.Zirconium salts, regardless of their amorphous or layered structures, appear to be excellent hosts for developinglong-lived charge-separated states between C60 and Ru(bpy)
3 derivatives. Moreover, the presented evidencepoints to the important fact that the inorganic scaffolding acted as a semiconductor, harvesting the electronsand/or holes produced at the active organic components. These findings suggest that the studied materialscould be suitable for the building of practical solar cells.